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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. It covers the material in the Computer Communication and Networking core course of the joint ACM/IEEE Computing Curricula 2001.

• NEW - Expanded coverage of wireless communications and networking—Devotes one chapter each to spread spectrum technology, cellular wireless networks, and wireless LANs.

  • Ensures that students become well-versed on the issues of this very hot topic.

• NEW - Improved pedagogy—Features a clarified, tightened narrative; improved illustrations; new “field-tested” problems; lists of key words and review questions at the end of each chapter; and expanded Web support.

  • Makes content even more accessible to students.

• NEW - New, updated, and expanded topics—Gigabit Ethernet (including 10-Gbps Ethernet), differentiated Services, Guaranteed frame rate (GFR), multiprotocol label switching (MPLS).

• NEW - A new background chapter on TCP/IP.

  • Pulls together material scattered throughout the previous edition to ensure that students don't miss any material that is vital to an understanding of QoS and performance issues in IP-based networks.

• 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, 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.

• Unparalleled project support—The Instructor's CD-ROM 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, including research projects, simulation projects, analytic modeling 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 on the Instructor's CD.

  • 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 study tools.

• Expanded coverage of wireless communications and networking—Devotes one chapter each to spread spectrum technology, cellular wireless networks, and wireless LANs.

  • Ensures that students become well-versed on the issues of this very hot topic.

• Improved pedagogy—Features a clarified, tightened narrative; improved illustrations; new “field-tested” problems; lists of key words and review questions at the end of each chapter; and expanded Web support.

  • Makes content even more accessible to students.

• New, updated, and expanded topics—Gigabit Ethernet (including 10-Gbps Ethernet), differentiated Services, Guaranteed frame rate (GFR), multiprotocol label switching (MPLS).

• A new background chapter on TCP/IP.

  • Pulls together material scattered throughout the previous edition to ensure that students don't miss any material that is vital to an understanding of QoS and performance issues in IP-based networks.

 0. Reader's Guide.

I. OVERVIEW.

II. DATA COMMUNICATIONS.

III. WIDE AREA NETWORKS.

IV. LOCAL AREA NETWORKS.

V. COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS.

APPENDICES.

Networking--Intro  (Computer Science)
Computer Networks  [CORE TEXTS]   (Electrical and Computing Engineering)

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  Data and Computer Communications, 8/E
  Stallings
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 896 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132433109 | ISBN-13: 9780132433105
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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, including the current edition.

  
  

  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. The Eighth Edition provides updated coverage of multimedia, Gigabit and 10 Gbps Ethernet, WiFi/IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, security, and more

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William Stallings. On six occasions since 1966, The Textbook and Academic Authors Association has named William Stallings as author of the best Computer Science and Engineering textbook of the year. The 17 books and numerous articles that Dr. Stallings has written comprise an extraordinary contribution to understanding the constantly changing world of computer networking and computer architecture. An independent consultant, he functions as technical advisor to computer and networking manufacturers, software development firms and leading-edge government research institutions. Dr. Stallings received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at Notre Dame and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from M.I.T. All of his Prentice Hall titles can he found at the Prentice Hall Companion Website.

In Data and Computer Communications, Seventh Edition, William Stallings maintains his status as the preeminent author of clear and comprehensive texts in the field of data communications. Dr. Stallings provides new, in-depth presentations on wireless cot71munications, wireless networks and wireless standards. This most recent edition, which includes a tutorial on the latest in network design technologies and protocols, is an essential tool for professionals, academics, and students alike.

• Fully discusses significant Internet developments: integrated services, differentiated services and other matters related to Quality of Service (QoS). and addresses the RSVP reservation protocols.
• Comprehensive coverage of wireless communications and networks. including wireless LANs and cellular networks.
• Reviews TCP Congestion Control and ATM traffic management and congestion control techniques.
• A detailed treatment of high-speed LANs including 1Q-Ubps Ethernet and Fibre Channel.
• A full discussion of data communications, circuit switching, and packet switching.
• Supplements the text with a Companion Website, www.prenhall.com/stallings. This source provides links to numerous pertinent sites, transparency masters of figures from the book, PowerPoint slides for lecturing, and an errata sheet.

Companion Website - Stallings, 7/E
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Instructor's Resource CD-ROM (download only), 7/E
Stallings
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Lab Manual, 7/E
Brown
©2004 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 146 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131482521 | ISBN-13: 9780131482524
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Interwrite Personal Response System
EduCue, Addison-Wesley & Benjamin Cummings
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