Includes bibliographical references and index.

UNIT ONE FUNDAMENTALS -- PART ONE OVERVIEW -- Chapter 1 Data Communications, Data Networks, and the Internet -- Chapter 2 Protocol Architecture, TCP/IP, and Internet-Based Applications -- PART TWO DATA COMMUNICATIONS -- Chapter 3 Data Transmission -- Chapter 4 Transmission Media -- Chapter 5 Signal Encoding Techniques -- Chapter 6 Error Detection and Correction -- Chapter 7 Data Link Control Protocols -- Chapter 8 Multiplexing -- PART THREE WIDE AREA NETWORKS -- Chapter 9 WAN Technology and Protocols -- Chapter 10 Cellular Wireless Networks -- PART FOUR LOCAL AREA NETWORKS -- Chapter 11 Local Area Network Overview -- Chapter 12 Ethernet -- Chapter 13 Wireless LANs -- PART FIVE INTERNET AND TRANSPORT LAYERS -- Chapter 14 The Internet Protocol -- Chapter 15 Transport Protocols -- UNIT TWO ADVANCED TOPICS IN DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING.

PART SIX DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND WIRELESS NETWORKS -- Chapter 16 Advanced Data Communications Topics -- Chapter 17 Wireless Transmission Techniques -- Chapter 18 Wireless Networks -- PART SEVEN INTERNETWORKING -- Chapter 19 Routing -- Chapter 20 Congestion Control -- Chapter 21 Internetwork Operation -- Chapter 22 Internetwork Quality of Service -- Chapter 23 Multiprotocol Label Switching -- PART EIGHT INTERNET APPLICATIONS -- Chapter 24 Electronic Mail, DNS, and HTTP -- Chapter 25 Internet Multimedia Support -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A Fourier Analysis -- Appendix B Projects and Other Student Exercises for Teaching Data and Computer Communications -- ONLINE CHAPTERS AND APPENDICES[1] PART NINE NETWORK SECURITY -- Chapter 26 Computer and Network Security Threats -- Chapter 27 Computer and Network Security Techniques.

Appendix C Standards Organizations -- Appendix D Asynchronous and Synchronous Transmission -- Appendix E The OSI Model -- Appendix F The International Reference Alphabet -- Appendix G Proof of the Sampling Theorem -- Appendix H Ones Complement Representation and Addition -- Appendix I Statistical TDM -- Appendix J The Spanning Tree Algorithm -- Appendix K LAN Performance Issues -- Appendix L Matrix Multiplication and Determinants -- Appendix M Queuing Effects -- Appendix N Orthogonality, Correlation, and Autocorrelation -- Appendix O TCP/IP Example -- Appendix P Queue Management and Queueing Discipline -- Appendix Q Cryptographic Algorithms -- Appendix R Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) -- Appendix S Augmented Backus-Naur Form -- Appendix T Derivations of Equations and Examples.

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