CONTENIDO
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 USES OF COMPUTER NETWORKS 3
1.2 NETWORK HARDWARE 7
1.3 NETWORK SOFTWARE 16
1.4 REFERENCE MODELS 28
1.5 EXAMPLE NETWORKS 44
1.6 EXAMPLE DATA COMMUNICATION SERVICES 56
1.7 NETWORK STANDARDIZATION 66
1.8 OUTLINE OF THE REST OF THE BOOK 72
2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER 77
2.1 THE THEORETICAL BASIS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION 77
2.2 TRANSMISSION MEDIA 82
2.3 WIRELESS TRANSMISSION 94
2.4 THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM 102
2.5 NARROWBAND ISDN 139
2.6 BROADBAND ISDN AND ATM 144
2.7 CELLULAR RADIO 155
2.8 COMMUNICATION SATELLITES 163
3 THE DATA LINK LAYER 175
3.1 DATA LINK LAYER DESIGN ISSUES 176
3.2 ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION 183
3.3 ELEMENTARY DATA LINK PROTOCOLS 190
3.4 SLIDING WINDOW PROTOCOLS 202
3.5 PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION 219
3.6 EXAMPLE DATA LINK PROTOCOLS 225
4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS SUBLAYER 243
4.1 THE CHANNEL ALLOCATION PROBLEM 244
4.2 MULTIPLE ACCESS PROTOCOLS 246
4.3 IEEE STANDARD 802 FOR LANS AND MANS 275
4.4 BRIDGES 304
4.5 HIGH-SPEED LANS 318
4.6 SATELLITE NETWORKS 327
5 THE NETWORK LAYER 339
5.1 NETWORK LAYER DESIGN ISSUES 339
5.2 ROUTING ALGORITHMS 345
5.3 CONGESTION CONTROL ALGORITHMS 374
5.4 INTERNETWORKING 396
5.5 THE NETWORK LAYER IN THE INTERNET 412
5.6 THE NETWORK LAYER IN ATM NETWORKS 449
6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER 479
6.1 THE TRANSPORT SERVICE 479
6.2 ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS 488
6.3 A SIMPLE TRANSPORT PROTOCOL 510
6.4 THE INTERNET TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS (TCP AND UDP) 521
6.5 THE ATM AAL LAYER PROTOCOLS 545
6.6 PERFORMANCE ISSUES 555
7 THE APPLICATION LAYER 577
7.1 NETWORK SECURITY 577
7.2 DNS--DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM 622
7.3 SNMP--SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL 630
7.4 ELECTRONIC MAIL 643
7.5 USENET NEWS 669
7.6 THE WORLD WIDE WEB 681
7.7 MULTIMEDIA 723
8 READING LIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 767
8.1 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 767
8.2 ALPHABETICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 775
INDEX 795