Communications and Networking: An Introduction / Edition 2

by John Cowley

Overview

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 prools, 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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447143567
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	09/14/2012
Series:	Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2013
Pages:	235
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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