Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols, and Practice

Preface Introduction Services and protocols The reference models Organisation of the book The application Layer Principles Application-level protocols Writing simple networked applications Summary Exercises The transport layer Principles of a reliable transport protocol The User Datagram Protocol The Transmission Control Protocol Summary Exercises The network layer Principles Internet Protocol Routing in IP networks Summary Exercises The datalink layer and the Local Area Networks Principles Medium Access Control Datalink layer technologies Summary Exercises Glossary Bibliography Indices and tables Bibliography Index