3 Review(s)

This book is meant for computer networks for beginners. We can learn computer networks concepts well with the practice of applications. The purpose of this book is to learn networking and internet concepts easily with variety of applications. This book makes the reader to get familiar with computer networks. Unit 1 Covers Building a network – Requirements – Layering and protocols – Internet Architecture – Network software – Performance – Link layer Services – Framing – Error Detection – Flow control. Unit 2 Covers Media access control – Ethernet (802.3) – Wireless LANs – 802.11 – Bluetooth – Switching and bridging – Basic Internetworking (IP, CIDR, ARP, DHCP, ICMP). Unit 3 Covers Routing (RIP, OSPF, metrics) – Switch basics – Global Internet (Areas, BGP, IPv6), Multicast – addresses – multicast routing (DVMRP, PIM). Unit 4 Covers Overview of Transport layer – UDP – Reliable byte stream (TCP) – Connection management – Flow control – Retransmission – TCP Congestion control – Congestion avoidance (DECbit, RED) – QoS – Application requirements. Unit 5 Covers Traditional applications -Electronic Mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, MIME) – HTTP – Web Services – DNS – SNMP.