Computer Networks: A Systems Approach / Edition 6

by Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie

Overview

Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Sixth Edition, explores the key principles of computer networking, using real world examples from network and protocol design. Using the Internet as the primary example, this best-selling classic textbook explains various protocols and networking technologies. The systems-oriented approach encourages students to think about how individual network components fit into a larger, complex system of interactions. This sixth edition contains completely updated content with expanded coverage of the topics of utmost importance to networking professionals and students, as provided by numerous contributors via a unique open source model developed jointly by the authors and publisher.

Hallmark features of the book are retained, including chapter problem statements, which introduce issues to be examined; shaded sidebars that elaborate on a topic or introduce a related advanced topic; What’s Next? discussions that deal with emerging issues in research, the commercial world, or society; and exercises. This book is intended primarily for graduate or upper-division undergraduate classes in computer networking. It will also be useful for industry professionals retraining for network-related assignments, as well as for network practitioners seeking to understand the workings of network protocols and the big picture of networking. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128182000
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	03/15/2021
Series:	The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking
Edition description:	6th ed.
Pages:	848
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Larry Peterson is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at Princeton University, where he served as Chair from
2003-2009. His research focuses on the design, implementation, and operation of Internet-scale distributed systems, including the widely used PlanetLab and MeasurementLab platforms. He currently serves as the CTO of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), where he works on open source software at the intersection of access networks and the edge cloud. Professor Peterson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, the 2010 recipient of the IEEE Kobayashi Computer and Communication Award, and the 2013 recipient of the ACM SIGCOMM Award. He received his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 1985.

Bruce Davie is VP and CTO for VMware, APJ. He joined VMware as part of the Nicira acquisition, and was Networking CTO until 2017. He has over 30 years of industry experience, and was a Cisco Fellow prior to joining Nicira. He has contributed to many networking standards and authored several networking textbooks. Bruce received his Ph. D. in computer science from the University of Edinburgh in 1988 and is an ACM Fellow.

Table of Contents

1. Foundation
2. Getting Connected
3. Internetworking
4. Advanced Internetworking
5. End-to-End Protocols
6. Congestion Control and Resource Allocation
7. End-to-End Data
8. Network Security
9. Applications

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

This bestseller - with over 80,000 copies sold worldwide since the first publication - now in an expanded and completely updated edition!

Editorial Reviews

"In the book, consisting of 9 chapters, individual chapters can be grouped into three functional blocks. In the first one, the authors present the principles of accessing computer networks and the basic issues of connecting and integrating various network solutions along with the principles of datagram communication. In the second segment of the book, the emphasis is placed on the quality of communication, in particular flow and congestion control, allowing to counteract overload phenomena in communication between end users....

The last chapters of the book concern data formatting, network security and the principles of realization of selected network applications.An important supplement to the book are numerous examples and a large number of exercises and tasks for the readers. The authors add sketchy solutions to some of them. The book gives therefore interesting and useful material for people who want to learn the basics of computer networks operation." —zbMath/European Mathematical Society and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

From the Publisher

The Barnes & Noble Review
The field of networking is so huge and dynamic that it's extremely difficult to get the big picture. How do all those protocols and standards fit together? Why choose one over another? What's likely to happen next? Here's a book that delivers the big picture with brilliant clarity: Computer Networks, Fourth Edition.

Princeton's Larry Peterson and Cisco Fellow Bruce Davie -- both leading-edge networking researchers -- are singularly well placed to write a book like this. And their "systems approach" makes compelling sense.

By systems approach, here's what Peterson and Davie mean. They start first with principles, illuminating the thinking that transformed those principles into today's networks. They handle issues like security and congestion control holistically, recognizing their impact on the entire network stack. They rely on real-world protocols and software implementations. They focus heavily on applications, not just hardware and software. And they address the "overall end-to-end behavior of networks, not just the individual components."

What's new in this Fourth Edition? Plenty. For example, they've completely revamped their coverage of network security, broadening it beyond encryption to the overall theme of building secure systems. There's much more here on XML; on P2P and content distribution networks; on interdomain routing; and on wireless (including 3G cellular, 802.11, and rapidly emerging WiMAX standards). There's extensive new coverage of protocols and QoS for multimedia and VoIP (areas where Davie's work has been extremely influential). The book now introduces web services technologies such as SOAP and REST. And you'll find new sidebars that focus on the "why" behind these network protocols and standards -- as well as a chapter-length application case study that brings it all together.

The result of all these improvements? An already great book is now even better. Hugely popular in academia, Computer Networks, Fourth Edition will also be powerfully useful to working network professionals. Bill Camarda, from the April 2007 Read Only

A systems oriented approach to computer network design, using the Internet as a model for illustrating network protocol design. Chapters on areas such as direct link networks and congestion control offer code fragments from a working protocol environment, the x-kernel, to demonstrate how protocol specifications and design principles are implemented. Includes chapter introductions; summaries; exercises; programming assignments; key paragraphs; and sidebars, plus a highly readable layout. For undergraduate and graduate courses. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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