Computer networks

"Computer networks" Table Of Contents:

• 1- 1. Introduction. Uses of computer networks : Business applications ; Home applications ; Mobile users ; Social issues
• 2- Network hardware : Personal area networks ; Local area networks ; Metropolitan area networks ; Wide area networks ; Internetworks
• 3- Network software : Protocol hierarchies ; Design issues for the layers ; Connection-oriented versus connectionless service ; Service primitives ; The relationship of services to protocols
• 4- Reference models : The OSI reference model ; The TCP/IP reference model ; The model used in this book ; A comparison of the OSI and TCP/IP reference models ; A critique of the OSI model and protocols ; A critique of the TCP/IP reference model
• 5- Example networks : The internet ; Third-generation mobile phone networks ; Wireless LANs: 802.11 ; RFID and sensor networks
• 6- Network standardization : Who's who in the telecommunications world ; Who's who in the international standards world ; Who's who in the internet standards world
• 7- Metric units
• 8- Outline of the rest of the book
• 9- 2. The physical layer. The theoretical basis for data communication : Fourier analysis ; Bandwidth-limited signals ; The maximum data rate of a channel
• 10- Guided transmission media : Magnetic media ; Twisted pairs ; Coaxial cable ; Power lines ; Fiber optics
• 11- Wireless transmission : The electromagnetic spectrum ; Radio transmission ; Microwave transmission ; Infrared transmission ; Light transmission
• 12- Communication satellites : Geostationary satellites ; Medium-earth orbit satellites ; Low-earth orbit satellites ; Satellites versus fiber
• 13- Digital modulation and multiplexing : Baseband transmission ; Passband transmission ; Frequency division multiplexing ; Time division multiplexing ; Code division multiplexing
• 14- The public switched telephone network : Structure of the telephone system ; The politics of telephones ; The local loop: modems, ADSL, and fiber ; Trunks and multiplexing ; Switching
• 15- The mobile telephone system : First-generation (coco1G) mobile phones: analog voice ; Second-generation (2G) mobile phones: digital voice ; Third-generation (3G) mobile phones: digital voice and date
• 16- Cable television : Community antenna television ; Internet over cable ; Spectrum allocation ; Cable modems ; ADSL versus cable
• 17- 3. The data link layer. Data link layer design issues : Services provided to the network layer ; Framing ; Error control ; Flow control
• 18- Error detection and correction : Error-correcting codes ; Error-detecting codes
• 19- Elementary data link protocols : A Utopian simplex protocol ; A simplex stop-and-wait protocol for an error-free channel ; A simplex stop-and-wait protocol for a noisy channel
• 20- Sliding window protocols : A one-bit sliding window protocol ; A protocol using go-back-n ; A protocol using selective repeat
• 21- Example data link protocols : Packet over SONET ; ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber loop)
• 22- 4. The medium access control sublayer. The channel allocation problem : Static channel allocation ; Assumptions for dynamic channel allocation
• 23- Multiple access protocols : ALOHA ; Carrier sense multiple access protocols ; Collision-free protocols ; Limited-contention protocols ; Wireless LAN protocols
• 24- Ethernet : Classic ethernet physical layer ; Classic ethernet MAC sublayer protocol ; Ethernet performance ; Switched ethernet ; Fast ethernet ; Gigabit ethernet ; 10-gigabit ethernet ; Retrospective on ethernet
• 25- Wireless LANs : The 802.11 architecture and protocol stack ; The 802.11 physical layer ; The 802.11 MAC sublayer protocol ; The 802.11 frame structure ; Services
• 26- Broadband wireless : Comparison of 802.16 with 802.11 and 3G ; The 802.16 architecture and protocol stack ; The 802.16 physical layer ; The 802.16 MAC sublayer protocol ; The 802.16 frame structure
• 27- Bluetooth : Bluetooth architecture ; Bluetooth applications ; The bluetooth protocol stack ; The bluetooth radio layer ; The bluetooth link layers ; The bluetooth frame structure
• 28- RFID : EPC gen 2 architecture ; EPC gen 2 physical layer ; EPC gen 2 tag identification layer ; Tag identification message formats
• 29- Data link layer switching : Uses of bridges ; Learning bridges ; Spanning tree bridges ; Repeaters, hubs, bridges, switches, routers, and gateways ; Virtual LANs
• 30- 5. The network layer. Network layer design issues : Store-and-forward packet switching ; Services provided to the transport layer ; Implementation of connectionless service ; Implementation of connection-oriented service ; Comparison of virtual-circuit and datagram networks
• 31- Routing algorithms : The optimality principle ; Shortest path algorithm ; Flooding ; Distance vector routing ; Link state routing ; Hierarchical routing ; Broadcast routing ; Multicast routing ; Anycast routing ; Routing for mobile hosts ; Routing in ad hoc networks
• 32- Congestion control algorithms : Approaches to congestion control : Traffic-aware routing ; Admission control ; Traffic throttling ; Load shedding
• 33- Quality of service : Application requirements ; Traffic shaping ; Packet scheduling ; Admission control ; Integrated services ; Differentiated services
• 34- Internetworking : How networks differ ; How networks can be connected ; Tunneling ; Internetwork routing ; Packet fragmentation
• 35- The network layer in the internet : The IP version 4 protocol ; IP addresses ; IP version ; Internet control protocols ; Label switching and MPLS ; OSPF, an interior gateway routing protocol ; BGP, the exterior gateway routing protocol ; Internet multicasting ; Mobile IP
• 36- 6. The transport layer. The transport service : Services provided to the upper layers ; Transport service primitives ; Berkeley sockets ; An example of socket programming: an internet file server
• 37- Elements of transport protocols : Addressing ; Connection establishment ; Connection release ; Error control and flow control ; Multiplexing ; Crash recovery
• 38- Congestion control : Desirable bandwidth allocation ; Regulating the sending rate ; Wireless issues
• 39- The internet transport protocols: UDP : Introduction to UDP ; Remote procedure call ; Real-time transport protocols ; The internet transport protocols: TCP : Introduction to TCP ; The TCP service model ; The TCP protocol ; The TCP segment header ; TCP connection establishment ; TCP connection release ; TCP connection management modeling ; TCP sliding window ; TCP timer management ; TCP congestion control : The future of TCP
• 40- Performance issues : Performance problems in computer networks ; Network performance measurement ; Host design for fast networks ; Fast segment processing ; Header compression ; Protocols for long fat networks
• 41- Delay-tolerant networking : DTN architecture ; The bundle protocol
• 42- 7. The application layer. DNS, the domain name system : The DNS name space ; Domain resource records ; Name servers
• 43- Electronic mail : Architecture and services ; The user agent ; Message formats ; Message transfer ; Final delivery
• 44- The world wide web : Architectural overview ; Static web pages ; Dynamic web pages and web applications ; HTTP, the hypertext transfer protocol ; The mobile web ; Web search
• 45- Streaming audio and video : Digital audio ; Digital video ; Streaming stored media ; Streaming live media ; Real-time conferencing
• 46- Content delivery : Content and internet traffic ; Server farms and web proxies ; Content delivery networks ; Peer-to-peer networks
• 47- 8. Network security. Cryptography : Introduction to cryptography ; Substitution ciphers ; Transposition ciphers ; One-time pads ; Two fundamental cryptographic principles
• 48- Symmetric-key algorithms : DES, the data encryption standard ; AES, the advanced encryption standard ; Cipher modes ; Other ciphers ; Cryptanalysis
• 49- Public-key algorithms : RSA ; Other public-key algorithms
• 50- Digital signatures : Symmetric-key signatures ; Public-key signatures ; Message digests ; The birthday attack
• 51- Management of public keys : Certificates ; X.509 ; Public key infrastructures
• 52- Communication security : IPsec ; Firewalls ; Virtual private networks ; Wireless security
• 53- Authentication protocols : Authentication based on a shared secret key ; Establishing a shared key: the Diffie-Hellman key exchange ; Authentication using a key distribution center ; Authentication using Kerberos ; Authentication using public-key cryptography
• 54- Email security : PGP, pretty good privacy ; S/MIME
• 55- Web security : Threats ; Secure naming ; SSL, the secure sockets layer ; Mobile code security
• 56- Social issues : Privacy ; Freedom of speech ; Copyright
• 57- 9. Reading list and bibliography. Suggestions for further reading : Introduction and general works ; The physical layer ; The data link layer ; The medium access control sublayer ; The network layer ; The transport layer ; The application layer ; Network security
• 58- Alphabetical bibliography.

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