Telecommunications and NetworkingAs the dividing line between traditional computing science and telecommunications quickly becomes blurred or disappears in today's rapidly changing environment, there is an increasing need for computer professionals to possess knowledge of telecommunications principles. Telecommunications and Networking presents a comprehensive overview of the interaction and relationship between telecommunications and data processing. The book's early chapters cover basic telecommunications vocabulary, common nomenclature, telecommunications fundamentals, as well as the important relationships among coding, error detection and correction, and noise. Later chapters discuss such topics as switching, timing, topological structures, routing algorithms, and teleprocessing. Other topics covered in detail include specific concerns inherent to computer communications, such as protocols, error detection and correction, network monitoring and security, and system validation. System designers and programmers can no longer be effective simply by understanding the tradeoffs between hardware and software. Telecommunications and Networking provides both computing professionals and students the fundamental computer communications concepts necessary to function in today's computer industry. |
Contents
The Signal and Information | 33 |
TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS | 57 |
Telecommunications Transmission Media | 105 |
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algorithm amplitude analog Application ARCnet attenuation bandwidth binary block bytes called carrier character coaxial cable communications system Computer Communications Computer Networks connection Data Communications Data Link Data Link Layer data rates data transmission datagram defined delay Demodulator designed destination detection device distortion Englewood Cliffs error fiber-optic field Figure flow control Fourier frame frequency functions HDLC header IEEE impulse noise indicate input INTELSAT interface ISDN kbps Lenkurt low-speed microwave modem multiplexing Network Layer node operating optical fiber OSI Model packet packet switching parameter parity path phase Physical Layer Prentice-Hall propagation protocol provides pulse radio received references routing satellite SDLC sending sequence Session Session Layer signal specific spectrum speed standard station switching synchronization telecommunications telephone terminal token transmitted user data voice channels voice circuits waveform