Computer Networking and the Internet

Chapter 1 Data communications and networking basic 1.1 Overview 1.2 Application and networking terminology 1.2.1 Data types and their characteristics 1.2.2 Data communications and networking terminology 1.2.3 Network types 1.2.4 Network QoS 1.2.5 Application QoS 1.3 Digital communication basics 1.3.1 Transmission media 1.3.2 Transmission control schemes 1.4 rotocol basics 1.4.1Error control 1.4.2 Idle RQ 1.4.3 Continuous RQ 1.4.4 Flow control 1.4.5 Sequence numbers 1.4.6 Layered architecture 1.4.7 Protocol specification 1.4.8 User service primitives 1.4.9 The HDLC protocol 1.5 Protocol stacks 1.5.1The Internet protocol stack Summary Exercises Chapter 2 Telephone networks and modems 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Transmission systems 2.2.1 Analog subscriber lines 2.2.2 PSTN modems 2.2.3 Digital subscriber lines 2.2.4 Plesiochronous digital hierarchy 2.2.5 Synchronous digital hierarchy 2.3 Access network signaling 2.3.1 Analog access circuits 2.3.2 ISDN digital access circuits 2.4 Trunk network signaling 2.5 Broadband modems 2.5.1 ADSL 2.5.2 VDSL 2.6 Internet service providers 2.6.1 Home and small office users 2.6.2 Business users 2.6.3 Broadband modems 2.6.4 The PPP link layer protocol 2.6.5 ISP networks and the Internet Summary Exercises Chapter 3 Local area networks and intranets 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Ethernet / IEEE 802.3 3.2.1 CSMA/CD 3.2.2 Wiring configurations 3.2.3 Frame format and operational parameters 3.2.4 Frame transmission and reception 3.3 LAN interconnection technologies 3.3.1 Repeater hubs 3.3.2 Bridging hubs 3.3.1 Switching hubs 3.4 High-speed LANs 3.4.1 Fast Ethernet 3.4.2 Switched Fast Ethernet 3.4.3 Gigabit Ethernet 3.5 Virtual LANs 3.5.1 IEEE 802.1Q 3.6 LAN protocols 3.6.1 Physical layer 3.6.2 MAC sublayer 3.6.3 LLC sublayer 3.6.4 Network layer 3.7 Multisite LAN interconnection technologies 3.7.1 Intersite gateways 3.7.2 ISDN switched connections 3.7.3 Frame relay 3.7.4 High bit rate leased lines 3.7.5 Metropolitan area networks Summary Exercises Chapter 4 Wireless networks 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Bluetooth 4.2.1 Radio interface 4.2.2 Configuration and terminology 4.2.3 Baseband packet transmissions 4.2 4 Baseband packet formats 4.2.5 Error control 4.2.6 The link manager protocol and establishing a piconet 4.2.7 L2CAP 4.2.8 Service discovery protocol 4.2.9 Protocol stack and application profiles 4.2.10 IEEE 802.15 4.3 Wireless LANs 4.3.1 Wireless media 4.3.2 MAC sublayer protocol 4.4 Cellular radio networks 4.4.1 Functional architecture of GSM 4.4.2 Functional architecture of GSM/GPRS 4.4.3 Functional architecture of UMTS Summary Exercises Chapter 5 Entertainment networks 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Cable television networks 5.2.1 HFC networks 5.2.2 Cable modems 5.2.3 MMDS and LMDS 5.2.4 IEEE 802.16 5.3 Satellite television networks 5.3.1 Broadcast television principles 5.3.2 Digital television 5.3.3 Interactive services Summary Exercises Chapter 6 The Internet protocol 6.1 Introduction 6.2 IP datagrams 6.3 Fragmentation and reassembly 6.4 IP addresses 6.4.1 Class-based addressing 6.4.2 Subnetting 6.4.3 Classless addressing 6.4.4 Network address translation 6.5 Routing algorithms 6.5.1 Static routing 6.5.2 Flooding 6.5.3 Distance vector routing 6.5.4 Link-state shortest-path-first routing 6.5.5 Tunneling 6.5.6 Broadcast routing 6.6 Routing in the Internet 6.6.1 Internet structure and terminology 6.6.2 ARP and RARP 6.6.3 DHCP 6.6.4 OSPF 6.6.5 BGP 6.6.6 Multicast routing 6.6.7 IGMP 6.6.8 Mbone 6.6.9 ICMP 6.6.10 Mobile IP 6.7 QoS support 6.7.1 Integrated services 6.7.2 Differentiated services 6.7.3 MPLS 6.8 IPv6 6.8.1 Datagram format 6.8.2 Address structure 6.8.3 Extension headers 6.8.4 Autoconfiguration 6.9 IPv6 / IPv4 interoperability 6.9.1 Dual protocols 6.9.2 Dual stacks and tunnelling 6.9.3 Translators Summary Exercises Chapter 7 Transport protocols 7.1 Introduction 7.2 TCP / IP protocol suite 7.3 TCP 7.3.1 User service 7.3.2 Protocol operation 7.3.3 Additional features 7.3.4 Protocol specification 7.4 UDP 7.4.1 User services 7.4.2 Protocol operation 7.5 RTP and RTCP 7.5.1 RTP 7.5.2 RTCP 7.6 Wireless TCP 7.6.1 Indirect TCP 7.6.2 Snooping TCP 7.6.3 TCP over cellular radio networks Summary Exercises Chapter 8 Internet applications 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Domain name system 8.2.2 DNS resource records 8.2.3 DNS query messages 8.2.4 Name servers 8.2.5 Service requests 8.3 Electronic mail 8.3.1 Structure of e-mail messages 8.3.2 Message content 8.3.3 Message transfer 8.3.4 E-mail gateways 8.4 FTP 8.4.1 Overview 8.4.2 File content representation 8.4.3 FTP operation 8.4.4 Command and reply message format 8.4.5 Example 8.4.6 Anonymous FTP 8.5 TFTP 8.5.1 Protocol 8.6 Internet telephony 8.6.1 SIP 8.6.2 SDP 8.6.3 GLP 8.6.4 H.323 8.7 SNMP 8.7.1 Structure of management information 8.7.2 Protocol Summary Exercises Chapter 9 The World Wide Web 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Overview 9.3 URLs and HTTP 9.3.1 URLs 9.3.2 HTTP 9.4 HTML 9.4.1 Text format directives 9.4.2 Lists 9.4.3 Color 9.4.4 Images and lines 9.4.5 Tables 9.4.6 Forms and CGI scripts 9.4.7 Web mail 9.4.8 Frames 9.4.9 Extended HTML 9.5 Java and JavaScript 9.5.1 Java 9.5.2 JavaScript 9.6 Audio and video 9.6.1 Streaming using a Web server 9.6.2 Steaming servers and RTSP 9.7 Wireless Web 9.7.1 WAP 2.0 Summary Exercises Chapter 10 Security 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Data encryption 10.2.1 Terminology 10.2.2 Basic techniques 10.2.3 The data encryption standard 10.2.4 IDEA 10.2.5 The RSA algorithm 10.3 Nonrepudiation 10.4 Authentication 10.5 Public key certification authorities 10.6 E-mail privacy 10.7 Network security 10.7.1 IP security 10.7.2 Security in wireless networks 10.8 Web security 10.8.1 SSL 10.8.2 SET Summary Exercises Appendix A Multimedia data representation and compression Appendix B Error detection methods Appendix C Forward error control Appendix D Radio propagation and transmission basics