- Hardcover: 896 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 8 edition (2 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0132433109
- ISBN-13: 978-0132433105
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 18.5 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 467,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Two-time winner of the best Computer Science and Engineering textbook of the year award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association, including the current edition.
For a one/two-semester courses in Computer Networks, Data Communications, and Communications Networks in CS, CIS, and Electrical Engineering departments.
With a focus on the most current technology and a convenient modular format, this best-selling text offers a clear and comprehensive survey of the entire data and computer communications field. Emphasizing both the fundamental principles as well as the critical role of performance in driving protocol and network design, it explores in detail all the critical technical areas in data communications, wide-area networking, local area networking, and protocol design. The Eighth Edition provides updated coverage of multimedia, Gigabit and 10 Gbps Ethernet, WiFi/IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, security, and more
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Data and Computer Communications sixth edition provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the whole field of data communications and a tutorial on leading-edge network technologies and protocols. Considered the standard in its field for the last 15 years, this up-to-date book continues to meet the needs of students, academics, and professionals by emphasizing both the fundamental principles as well as the critical role of performance in driving protocol and network design. This new edition offers a complete and detailed assessment of critical technical areas in data communications, wide-area networking, local area networking, and protocol design.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MAJOR SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES:- Includes xDSL, a family of digital subscriber line technologies that provides high-speed access to ISDN and other wide-area networks over ordinary twisted-pair lines from the network to a residential or business subscriber
- Presents an introduction to Gigabit Ethernet and an updated discussion on 100-Mbps Ethernet
- Covers Available Bit Rate (ABR) Service and Mechanisms that provides enhanced support for IP-based data traffic
- Surveys TCP Congestion Control, an area of active research
- Highlights Congestion Control that clarifies and expands the coverage of ATM traffic management and congestion control techniques
- Offers a new section devoted to IP MulticastingIncorporates substantial developments to the Internet, e.g. integrated services, differentiated services, other issues related to Quality of Service (QoS), and the important RSVP reservation protocol
- Provides a Companion Website, wwwprenhall.com/stallings, with extensive supplementary resources such as links to important sites for students and instructors, transparency masters of figures from the book, PowerPoint slides for lecturing, and an errata sheet
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Helpful for Data Comms,
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This review is from: Data and Computer Communications (International Edition) (Paperback)
I found this book really helpful during my second year of Computer Science. There were detailed explanations of the internal workings of networks, along with good diagrams.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Highly detailed book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Data and Computer Communications (Prentice Hall international editions) (Paperback)
I needed this book for my university course so I got it. The book is logically divided into seperate sections and it is very good as it details all about communications, the standards, the different systems and diagrams make it more clearly. The book has lots of information for internet and everything else..security...Then again this book was so good that after using it with my course I have passed my module for Computer Networks with flying colours!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Very good book, but some holes,
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This review is from: Data and Computer Communications (International Edition) (Paperback)
Over all a very good book, but in some areas it's very US-centric with detailed coverage of IS-95 but no mention of GSM. I also found the index hard to navigage with several attempts needed to find something as large as ADSL.
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