Basics
Data Rate, Throughput and Bandwidth
Any one network connection – eg at the LAN layer – has a data rate: the rate at…
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Basics
What is Network Management?
Having made our way through the first seven chapters of this text, we’re now well aware that a…
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Principles of Cryptography
Although cryptography has a long history dating back to Julius Caesar (we will look at the so-called Caesar…
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Streaming Stored Audio and Video
In recent years, audio/video streaming has become a popular class of applications and a major consumer of network…
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Multimedia Networking Applications
Back in Chapter 2 we examined the Web, file transfer, and electronic mail in some detail. The data carried…
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Multiple Access Protocols and LANs
In the introduction to this chapter, we noted that there are two types of network links: point-to-point links,…
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Hierarchical Routing
In the previous section, we viewed “the network” simply as a collection of interconnected routers. One router was…
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Routing Principles
In order to transfer packets from a sending host to the destination host, the network layer must determine…
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Principles of Congestion Control
In the previous sections, we’ve examined both the general principles and specific TCP mechanisms used to provide for a reliable…
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Connection-Oriented Transport: TCP
Now that we have covered the underlying principles of reliable data transfer, let’s turn to TCP – the Internet’s transport-layer,…
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