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Features

• NEW - Improved pedagogy—Features a clarified, tightened narrative; improved illustrations; and new “field-tested” problems.

  • Makes content even more accessible to students.

• NEW - A survey of xDSL—Especially Asymmetric Digital Subscribe Line (ADSL) technology.

  • Provides students with a broad survey of the new digital line techniques.

• NEW - Updated coverage of Gigabit Ethernet.

  • Presents students with leading-edge high-speed LAN design issues.

• NEW - Available Bit Rate (ABR) Service and Mechanisms.

  • Enables students to understand ATM support for IP-based network traffic.

• NEW - A separate chapter on Congestion Control—With expanded coverage of ATM traffic management and congestion control techniques.

  • Brings together in one place design issues related to congestion control for different types of networks, enabling students to understand underlying principles.

• NEW - A new section on IP Multicasting.

  • Introduces students to the key concepts needed to support multimedia.

• NEW - A new chapter on Integrated and Differentiated Services—Covers integrated services, differentiated services, other issues related to Quality of Service (QoS), and the important RSVP reservation protocol.

  • Gives students a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the new generation of Internet technologies.

• NEW - A new section on TCP Congestion Control.

  • Provides students with a unified discussion of this ongoing area of research.

• A modular format.

  • Allows instructors to easily design a course to meet their individual needs. For students, it breaks this massive subject into comprehensible parts.

• Unifying principles—Repeatedly emphasizes such principles as multiplexing, flow control, and error control. Highlights these principles and contrasts their application in specific areas of technology.

  • Enables students to understand how the same protocol design principles are applied at different levels of the protocol architecture.

• Design Approaches—Examines alternative approaches to meeting specific communication requirements.

  • Gives students a deeper understanding of communication system and protocol design.

• Standards—Offers a comprehensive discussion of the current status and future direction of related technology standards.

  • Gives students an understanding of the central role of standards in network and protocol design.

• Up-to-date coverage of wireless technology and networks—Including spread spectrum techniques and wireless LANs.

  • Enables students to compare the various approaches.

• Comprehensive coverage of TCP/IP.

  • Provides students a comprehensive understanding of this architecture as well as the important protocols that make up the architecture.

• Detailed discussion of all wide-area networking technologies—Including ATM itself, as well as ATM congestion control and ATM Adaption Layer (AAL).

  • Enables students to compare and evaluate competing approaches and thus understand each better.

• Detailed discussion of all local area networking technologies—Including high-speed LANs, such as Gigabit Ethernet, Token Ring, ATM LANs, and Fibre Channel, and wireless LANs.

  • Enables students to compare and evaluate competing approaches and thus understand each better.

• Comprehensive coverage of internetworking—Including IPv6. Covers the important issue of quality of service (QoS), including integrated and differentiated services and RSVP.

  • Provides students with a systematic, up-to-date, and comprehensive survey, including bridges, routers, and routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP, and QoS approaches.

• Clear, thorough treatment of network security—Including IP security.

  • Provides accessible coverage of one of the hottest, more complex, topics in networking.

• Comprehensive and unified discussion of data encoding for transmission.

  • Shows students the underlying principles behind this topic.

• Project support—The Instructor's Manual not only includes guidance on how to assign and structure projects, but also includes a set of suggested projects that covers a broad range of topics from the text: Research Projects, Modeling and Simulation Projects, and Reading/Report Assignments.

  • Provides students with hands-on experience to reinforce concepts from the text.

• Over 250 homework problems—With a range of difficulty. Solutions are provided in the Instructor's Manual.

  • Gives students opportunity to test their comprehension of concepts.

• Strong pedagogical support—Includes liberal use of figures and tables; glossary; list of acronyms; recommended reading list and Websites; and a bibliography.

  • Provides students with convenient in-test study and review tools.

New To This Edition

• Improved pedagogy—Features a clarified, tightened narrative; improved illustrations; and new “field-tested” problems.

  • Makes content even more accessible to students.

• A survey of xDSL—Especially Asymmetric Digital Subscribe Line (ADSL) technology.

  • Provides students with a broad survey of the new digital line techniques.

• Updated coverage of Gigabit Ethernet.

  • Presents students with leading-edge high-speed LAN design issues.

• Available Bit Rate (ABR) Service and Mechanisms.

  • Enables students to understand ATM support for IP-based network traffic.

• A separate chapter on Congestion Control—With expanded coverage of ATM traffic management and congestion control techniques.

  • Brings together in one place design issues related to congestion control for different types of networks, enabling students to understand underlying principles.

• A new section on IP Multicasting.

  • Introduces students to the key concepts needed to support multimedia.

• A new chapter on Integrated and Differentiated Services—Covers integrated services, differentiated services, other issues related to Quality of Service (QoS), and the important RSVP reservation protocol.

  • Gives students a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the new generation of Internet technologies.

• A new section on TCP Congestion Control.

  • Provides students with a unified discussion of this ongoing area of research.

Table of Contents

I. OVERVIEW.

II. DATA COMMUNICATIONS.

III. WIDE-AREA NETWORKS.

IV. LOCAL AREA NETWORKS.

V. COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS.

Next Edition(s)

• Data and Computer Communications, 9/E
  Stallings
  ©2011  |  Prentice Hall  |  Cloth; 888 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131392050  |  ISBN-13: 9780131392052
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  Two-time winner of the best Computer Science and Engineering textbook of the year award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association

  
  

  For a one/two-semester courses in Computer Networks, Data Communications, and Communications Networks in CS, CIS, and Electrical Engineering departments.

   

  With a focus on the most current technology and a convenient modular format, this best-selling text offers a clear and comprehensive survey of the entire data and computer communications field. Emphasizing both the fundamental principles as well as the critical role of performance in driving protocol and network design, it explores in detail all the critical technical areas in data communications, wide-area networking, local area networking, and protocol design.

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Author Bios

William Stallings has made a unique contribution to understanding the broad sweep of technical developments in computer networking and computer architecture. He has authored 17 books on various aspects of these subjects. He has four times received the Best Computer Science Book of the Year Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, including for the fifth edition of Data and Computer Communications. He is an independent consultant whose clients have included computer and networking manufacturers and customers, software development firms, and leading-edge government research institutions. Dr. Stallings holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in computer science. All of his Prentice Hall titles can be found at the Prentice Hall Companion Website.

Backcover Copy

Data and Computer Communications sixth edition provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the whole field of data communications and a tutorial on leading-edge network technologies and protocols. Considered the standard in its field for the last 15 years, this up-to-date book continues to meet the needs of students, academics, and professionals by emphasizing both the fundamental principles as well as the critical role of performance in driving protocol and network design. This new edition offers a complete and detailed assessment of critical technical areas in data communications, wide-area networking, local area networking, and protocol design.

• Includes xDSL, a family of digital subscriber line technologies that provides high-speed access to ISDN and other wide-area networks over ordinary twisted-pair lines from the network to a residential or business subscriber
• Presents an introduction to Gigabit Ethernet and an updated discussion on 100-Mbps Ethernet
• Covers Available Bit Rate (ABR) Service and Mechanisms that provides enhanced support for IP-based data traffic
• Surveys TCP Congestion Control, an area of active research
• Highlights Congestion Control that clarifies and expands the coverage of ATM traffic management and congestion control techniques
• Offers a new section devoted to IP MulticastingIncorporates substantial developments to the Internet, e.g. integrated services, differentiated services, other issues related to Quality of Service (QoS), and the important RSVP reservation protocol
• Provides a Companion Website, wwwprenhall.com/stallings, with extensive supplementary resources such as links to important sites for students and instructors, transparency masters of figures from the book, PowerPoint slides for lecturing, and an errata sheet

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