John Cowley

Communications and Networking

An Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook presents a detailed introduction to the essentials of networking and communications technologies. Revised and updated, this new edition retains the step-by-step approach of the original, organised to help those without a strong knowledge of the subject matter.
Features: provides chapter-ending summaries and review questions, an Appendix on TCP/IP packet formats and an expanded Glossary; supplies supplementary material at the associated Springer website, including teaching slides, solutions to the end-of-chapter questions and supplementary exercises with solutions; presents a greater emphasis on mobile computing and network security, and extended coverage of IPv6 (NEW); discusses networking models and standards, local area and wide area networks, network protocols, TCP/IP-based networks, network management and wireless communications; examines grid and cloud computing, microblogging, mobile ad hoc networks, near-field communication, Power over Ethernet and the Ground Positioning System (NEW).

Produktdetails

• Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
• Verlag: Springer / Springer London / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 80061958, 978-1-4471-4356-7
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781447143567
• ISBN-10: 1447143566
• Artikelnr.: 35934390

Autorenporträt

Now retired, Dr. John Cowley was formally a lecturer in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- 1: Communications Technologies.- 2: Networking Models and Standards.- 3: Local Area Networks.- 4: Wide Area Networks.- 5: Network Protocols.- 6: Internet Application Layer Protocols.- 7: Network Security.- 8: Network Management.- 9: Wireless Networks.