Computer Networks [PEARSON CHANNEL]

Andrew S. Tanenbaum is a Professor of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM and a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. He recently won a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant of 2.5 million to do research on highly reliable computer systems. Tanenbaum has also authored or coauthored the following titles: Structured Computer Organization, Fifth Edition; Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, Third Edition; and Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, Second Edition, all published by Prentice Hall.   David J. Wetherall is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. He hails from Australia and has worked in the area of networking for the past two decades. His research is focused on Internet protocols, wireless networks, and security. Wetherall's work has been recognized with a Sloan Fellowship, the IEEE Bennett Prize, and the ACM SIGCOMM Test-of-Time Award.   Nick Feamster is Neubauer Professor of Computer Science and the Director of  Center for Data and Computing (CDAC) at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on many aspects of computer networking and networked systems, with a focus on network operations, network security, and  censorship-resistant communication systems. He received his Ph.D. in Computer  science from MIT in 2005, and his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical  Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2000 and 2001, respectively. He  was an early-stage employee at Looksmart (acquired by AltaVista), where he  wrote the company's first web crawler; and at Damballa, where he helped  design the company's first botnet-detection algorithm. Nick is an ACM Fellow. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his contributions to data-driven approaches to network security. His early work in Software Defined Networking won the USENIX Test of Time Award for its influence on  Software Defined Networking; he created the first online course on this topic  and was also one of the first instructors in Georgia Tech's online Masters in  Computer Science program. Nick is an avid distance runner, having completed 20 marathons, including Boston, New York, and Chicago.  

1. Introduction




Uses of Computer Networks

Types of Computer Networks

Network Technology, from Local to Global

Examples of Networks

Network Protocols

Reference Models

Standardization

Policy, Legal, and Social Issues

Metric Units

Outline of the Rest of the Book

Summary


2. The Physical Layer




Guided Transmission Media

Wireless Transmission

Using the Spectrum for Transmission

From Waveforms to Bits

The Public Switched Telephone Network

Cellular Networks

Cable Networks

Communication Satellites

Comparing Different Access Networks

Policy at the Physical Layer

Summary


3. The Data Link Layer




Data Link Layer Design Issues

Error Detection and Correction

Elementary Data Link Protocols

Improving Efficiency

Data Link Protocols in Practice

Summary


4. The Medium Access Control Sublayer




The Channel Allocation Problem

Multiple Access Protocols

Ethernet

Wireless LANs

Bluetooth

DOCSIS

Data Link Layer Switching

Summary


5. The Network Layer




Network Layer Design Issues

Routing Algorithms in a Single Network

Traffic Management at the Network Layer

Quality of Service and Application QoE

Internetworking

Software Defined Networking

The Network Layer in the Internet

Policy at the Network layer

Summary


6. The Transport Layer




The Transport Service

Elements of Transport Protocols

Congestion Control

The Internet Transport Protocols: UDP

The Internet Transport Protocols: TCP, QUIC, BBR

Performance Monitoring

Delay-Tolerant Networking

Summary


7. The Application Layer




DNS — The Domain Name System

Electronic Mail

The World Wide Web

HTTP/2

Streaming Audio and Video

Content Delivery Networks and Distributed Cloud Services

Summary


8. Security




Fundamentals of Network Security

The Core Ingredients of an Attack

Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems

Cryptography

Symmetric-Key Algorithms

Public-Key Algorithms

Digital Signatures

Management of Public Keys

Authentication Protocols

Communication Security

Email Security

Web Security

Social Issues

Summary



9. List and Bibliography




Suggestions for Further Reading

Alphabetical Bibliography