Computer Networks and Internets - Douglas E. Comer

Computer Networks and Internets is appropriate for all introductory-to-intermediate courses in computer networking the Internet or Internet applications; readers need no background in networking operating systems or advanced mathematics. Leading networking authority Douglas Comer presents a wide-ranging self-contained tour of the concepts principles and technologies that enable today's Internet to support applications ranging from web browsing to telephony and multimedia. This Fifth Edition has been thoroughly reorganized revised and updated: it includes extensive new coverage of topics ranging from wireless protocols to network performance while reducing or eliminating coverage of older protocols and technologies. Comer begins by illuminating the applications and facilities offered by today's Internet. Next he systematically introduces the underlying network technologies and protocols that make them possible: low-level data communications; packet switching LAN and WAN technologies; and Internet protocols such as TCP IP UDP and IPv6. With these concepts and technologies established he introduces several of the most important contemporary issues faced by network implementers and managers including quality of service Internet telephony multimedia network security and network management. Comer has carefully designed this book to support both top-down and bottom-up teaching approaches. Students need no background in operating systems and no sophisticated math: Comer relies throughout on figures drawings examples and analogies not mathematical proofs.

TITLE: Computer Networks and Internets

AUTHOR: Douglas E. Comer

SKU: 9780135045831

PUBLISHER: Pearson Education (US)

DATE PUBLISHED: 12/06/2008

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 768

BINDING: Mixed media product

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 179 mm x 226 mm x 21 mm

WEIGHT: 810 gr