Understanding Data Communications and NetworksThoroughly updated for currency, this book offers a clear presentation of data communications and network fundamentals. Featuring a wide array of applications, the book fully explains concepts and supports them with case studies or descriptions of specific software and other products. Students learn the protocols of analog and digital signals, data compression, data integrity, data security, local area networks, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), and much more. The third edition includes important information on the latest developments of the Internet. |
Contents
Introduction to Communications Standards | 1 |
Topology | 10 |
Transmission Fundamentals | 55 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
acknowledgment algorithm allows analog signal area networks bit string BPDU bridge buffer byte-oriented protocol bytes cable channel character collision command connection contains cost data frame data link data link layer data rate decryption defines destination determine devices discussed encryption Ethernet example FDDI Figure file server flow control frame arrives frame format frame number frequency go-back-n HDLC header interface Internet ISDN Kermit Mbps modem modulation multiplexer NetWare node number of bits occur packet parity bit parity checks Petri net priority problem protocol received frame remote request resend response router routing table Section segment sender sending station sends frames sent sequence number slot specified standard station sends stored Suppose synchronization TCP/IP telephone terminal timer tion token bus token ring topology TPDU transfer transmission transmitted transport layer typically virtual circuit