0.1 Outline of the Book

0.2 A Roadmap for Readers and Instructors

0.3 Internet and Web Resources

0.4 Standards

1.1 Data Communications and Networking for Today's Enterprise

1.2 A Communications Model

1.3 Data Communications

1.4 Networks

1.5 The Internet

1.6 An Example Configuration

2.1 The Need for a Protocol Architecture

2.2 A Simple Protocol Architecture

2.3 The TCP/IP Protocol Architecture

2.4 Standardization within a Protocol Architecture

2.5 Traditional Internet-Based Applications

2.6 Multimedia

2.7 Sockets Programming

2.7 Recommended Reading

2.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Appendix 2A The Trivial File Transfer Protocol

3.1 Concepts and Terminology

3.2 Analog and Digital Data Transmission

3.3 Transmission Impairments

3.4 Channel Capacity

3.5 Recommended Reading

3.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Appendix 3A Decibels and Signal Strength

4.1 Guided Transmission Media

4.2 Wireless Transmission

4.3 Wireless Propagation

4.4 Line-of-Sight Transmission

4.5 Recommended Reading

4.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

5.1 Digital Data, Digital Signals

5.2 Digital Data, Analog Signals

5.3 Analog Data, Digital Signals

5.4 Recommended Reading

5.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

6.1 Types of Errors

6.2 Error Detection

6.3 Parity Check

6.4 The Internet Checksum

6.5 Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)

6.6 Forward Error Correction

6.7 Recommended Reading

6.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

7.1 Flow Control

7.2 Error Control

7.3 High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC)

7.4 Recommended Reading

7.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Appendix 7A Performance Issues