Computer Science

For courses in network protocols, high speed networks or advanced networking courses focusing on network protocols or high speed networks found in departments of Computer Science, Engineering, IT, and Continuing Education.

High-speed networks dominate both the local area network (LAN) and wide-area network (WAN) markets because of the increased use of multimedia applications and the World Wide Web, and other high-volume needs of users. This book provides a comprehensive, integrated and up-to-date survey of the key issues of high speed TCP/IP networks, the technology that dominates the field of high-speed networking. The author discuses a wide range of design issues related to high-speed networks, including congestion control, provision of different levels of quality of service (QoS), resource reservation, unicast and multicast routing, and multimedia compression. The central theme of the book is the need to carry large volumes of traffic with different QoS requirements over networks operating at very high data rates.

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Supplements Include: Solutions Manual, Figures, Tables, Images, and other miscellaneous documents.

• NEW - Reorganization of the text—Provides a better grouping of topics.

  • Offers a more natural flow of topic organization and coverage. Ex.___

• NEW - Part VI: Quality of Service in IP Networks.

  • Provides a unified and up-to-date discussion of this important topic, including coverage of Differentiated Services and Multiprotocol Label Switching. Ex.___

• NEW - New background chapter on TCP and IP.

  • Provides unified discussion of the information vital to an understanding of QoS and performance issues in IP-based networks. Ex.___

• NEW - Separate chapter devoted to congestion control.

  • Teaches about congestion control techniques. Ex.___

• NEW - Thorough coverage of Differentiated Services (DS).

  • Offers up-to-date coverage of these developments that allow the Internet to support a variety of multimedia and time-sensitive traffic. Ex.___

• NEW - Many expanded and new topics.

  • Discussions of issues such as Guaranteed Frame Relay (GFR), high-speed LANs, frame relay, and wavelet compression exposes readers to current developments. Ex.___

• NEW - Introduction to Sockets programming with programming project assignments.

  • Provides excellent hands-on projects. Ex.___

• The most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the key issues of high speed TCP/IP networks.

  • Solid coverage of issues such as TCP performance design issues and congestion control. Ex.___

• Exclusive treatment of self-similar traffic.

  • Unlike any other text, explains the mathematics behind self-similar traffic, its performance implications, and how to estimate performance parameters. Ex.___

• Up-to-date survey of the key issues of ATM networks.

  • Discusses the basic technology of ATM including the newest ATM traffic controls. Ex.___

• Solid, easy-to-absorb mathematical background.

  • Provides students with the necessary math as needed in a non-threatening way. Ex.___

• Parts IV through VII of the book are relatively independent.

  • Flexible design allows instructors to customize the book to the needs of their course. Ex.___

• Unified coverage of integrated (IS) and differentiated services (DS).

  • Provides a detailed discussion and comparison of these two principal approaches to providing Quality of Service over IP-based internets. Ex.___

• Thorough coverage of next-generation Internet protocols.

  • Provides students with an integrated treatment of standards such as RSVP, MPLS, RTP, and IPv6 and how they fit together. Ex.___

• Broad and detailed coverage of routing.

  • Offers an integrated treatment of both unicast routing and multicast routing. Ex.___

• Coverage of 10 gigabit Ethernet networks.

  • Provides coverage of high-speed network design issues needed for networks in the gigabit range as well as in the 10s and 100s of megabit per second range. Ex.___

• 185 homework problems.

  • Offers students the opportunity for review and reinforcement of material in each chapter. Ex.___

• Reorganization of the text—Provides a better grouping of topics.

  • Offers a more natural flow of topic organization and coverage. Ex.___

• Part VI: Quality of Service in IP Networks.

  • Provides a unified and up-to-date discussion of this important topic, including coverage of Differentiated Services and Multiprotocol Label Switching. Ex.___

• New background chapter on TCP and IP.

  • Provides unified discussion of the information vital to an understanding of QoS and performance issues in IP-based networks. Ex.___

• Separate chapter devoted to congestion control.

  • Teaches about congestion control techniques. Ex.___

• Thorough coverage of Differentiated Services (DS).

  • Offers up-to-date coverage of these developments that allow the Internet to support a variety of multimedia and time-sensitive traffic. Ex.___

• Many expanded and new topics.

  • Discussions of issues such as Guaranteed Frame Relay (GFR), high-speed LANs, frame relay, and wavelet compression exposes readers to current developments. Ex.___

• Introduction to Sockets programming with programming project assignments.

  • Provides excellent hands-on projects. Ex.___

I. BACKGROUND.

II. HIGH-SPEED NETWORKS.

III. PERFORMANCE MODELING AND ESTIMATION.

IV. CONGESTION AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.

V. INTERNET ROUTING.

VI. QUALITY OF SERVICE IN IP NETWORKS.

VII. COMPRESSION.

Network Protocols  (Computer Science)
TCP/IP  [HIGH SPEED NETWORKS]   (Computer Science)
Networking--Advanced  [HIGH SPEED NETWORKS]   (Computer Science)

William Stallings has made a unique contribution to understanding the broad sweep of technical developments in computer networking and computer architecture. He has authored 15 titles on various aspects of these subjects (a total of 34 books including revised editions). Currently, he is an independent consultant whose clients have included computer and networking manufacturers and customers, software development firms, and leading-edge governmental research institutions. Dr. Stallings received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from M.LT. and the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Notre Dame. All of his Prentice Hall titles can be found at the Prentice Hall web site, http://www.prenhall.com.

William Stallings offers the most comprehensive technical book to address a wide range of design issues of high-speed TCP/IP and ATM networks in print to date. High-Speed Networks and Internets presents both the professional and advanced student an up-to-date survey of key issues. The Companion Website and the author's Web page offer unmatched support for students and instructors. The book features the prominent use of figures and tables and an up-to-date bibliography.

In this second edition, this award-winning and best-selling author steps up to the leading edge of integrated coverage of key issues in the design of high-speed TCP/IP and ATM networks to include the following topics:

• Unified coverage of integrated and differentiated services.
• Up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of TCP performance.
• Thorough coverage of next-generation Internet protocols including (RSVP), (MPLS), (RTP), and the use of Ipv6.
• Unified treatment of congestion in data networks; packet-switching, frame relay, ATM networks, and IP-based internets.
• Broad and detailed coverage of routing, unicast, and multicast.
• Comprehensive coverage of ATM; basic technology and the newest traffic control standards.
• Solid, easy-to-absorb mathematical background enabling understanding of the issues related to high-speed network performance and design.
• Up-to-date treatment of gigabit Ethernet.
• The first treatment of self-similar traffic for performance assessment in a textbook on networks (Explains the mathematics behind self-similar traffic and shows the performance implications and how to estimate performance parameters.)
• Up-to-date coverage of compression. (A comprehensive survey.)
• Coverage of gigabit networks. Gigabit design issues permeate the book.

Author Website, 2/E
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©2002 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130334707 | ISBN-13: 9780130334701
URL:  http://www.williamstallings.com/HsNet2e.html

Author Website, 2/E
Stallings
©2002 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130334707 | ISBN-13: 9780130334701
URL:  http://www.williamstallings.com/HsNet2e.html

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©2002 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement; 300 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130335231 | ISBN-13: 9780130335234
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Stallings
©2002 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130334707 | ISBN-13: 9780130334701
URL:  http://www.williamstallings.com/HsNet2e.html

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Stallings
©2002 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130334707 | ISBN-13: 9780130334701
URL:  http://www.williamstallings.com/HsNet2e.html

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