Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Physical Structures
1.2 Software (Protocols)
Chapter 2 Physical Layer: Data Transmission
2.1 Schema
2.2 Mathematical Modeling
2.3 Transmission Impairments
2.4 Channel capacity
2.5 Analog and Digital Transmissions
Chapter 3 Physical Layer: Transmission Media
3.1 Background
3.2 Guided Transmission Media
3.3 Wireless (or, Unguided) Transmission Media
Chapter 4 Physical Layer: Data Encoding
4.1 Background
4.2 Digital Data, Digital Signal
4.3 Digital Data, Analog Signal
4.4 Analog Data, Digital Signal
4.5 Analog Data, Analog Signal
Chapter 5 Physical Layer: Data Communication
5.1 Objective
5.2 Assumptions
5.3 Asynchronous Transmission
5.4 Synchronous Transmission
Chapter 6 Data Link Control Layer
6.1 Framing
6.2 Error Detection Codes
6.3 Flow Control
6.4 Error Control
6.5 Example: HDLC
Chapter 7 Wide Area Networks: Circuit Switching
7.1 Communication Switching
7.2 Circuit Switching Nodes
7.3 Routing
7.4 Control Signaling
7.5 Characteristics
Chapter 8 Wide Area Networks: Packet Switching
8.1 Approaches
8.2 Design Issues for Routing Strategies
8.3 Routing Strategies
8.4 Examples of Routing Algorithms
8.5 Congestion Control
8.6 X.25
Chapter 9 Local and Metropolitan Area Networks
9.1 LAN Topologies
9.2 Protocols
9.3 Medium Access Control
9.4 Logical Link Control
9.5 Bus, Tree, and Star Arbitration
9.6 Ethernet
9.7 Token Ring Arbitration
9.8 IEEE 802.5
9.9 FDDI
Chapter 10 Internetworking: The Internet Layer of TCP/IP
10.1 Background
10.2 IP Datagram
10.3 IP Addresses
10.4 Fragmentation
Chapter 11 Internetworking: The Transport Layer of TCP/IP
11.1 Transport Control Protocol (TCP)
11.2 User Datagram Protocol (UDP)