TEXTBOOKS for
Networking Courses

Computer Networks, 5th Edition
A Systems Approach
Larry Peterson
Bruce Davie
ISBN: 9780123850591
Copyright 2011

This best-selling and classic textbook teaches the key principles of computer networks with examples drawn from the real world of network and protocol design. Using the Internet as the primary example, the authors explain various protocols and networking technologies.

Their systems-oriented approach encourages your students to think about how individual network components fit into a larger, complex system of interactions. This approach is designed to help you give your students a "big picture" understanding of how modern networks and their applications are built so that they are prepared for real world applications. New to this edition, the authors offer an alternate pathway through the book to facilitate a "top-down" course approach... [more]

Network Simulation Experiments Manual
Companion to the new 5th edition of Computer Networks
Emad Aboelela
ISBN: 9780123852106
Copyright 2011

Networking concepts are difficult to explain, even through careful description and well thought out examples. One useful teaching method is enabling the networking professional to visualize how networks work by using a software tool that simulates network functions. The Network Simulation Experiments Manual provides just such a tool by allowing the reader to download free, easy-to-install OPNET software. This software provides a virtual environment for modeling, analyzing, and predicting the performance of IT infrastructures, including applications, servers, and networking technologies. The book also goes a step further by providing detailed experiments on core networking topologies for use in this simulation environment. Each experiment is also accompanied by review questions, a lab report, and exercises... [more]

Architecture of Network Systems
Dimitrios Serpanos
Tilman Wolf
ISBN: 9780123744944
Copyright 2011

Network systems combine design principles and technologies from computer architecture, embedded systems, algorithms, and networking. Architecture of Network Systems explains the practice and methodologies that are necessary to solve a broad range of problems in network system design, including issues related to performance, scalability, security, and power efficiency. Leading researchers Dimitrios Serpanos and Tilman Wolf discuss network systems and their components at all layers of the protocol stack, bridging the gap between design and operation. This systematic treatment ranges from basic to advanced topics, exposing major challenges in network systems architecture and divulging their solutions... [more]

Optical Networks, 3rd Edition
A Practical Perspective
Rajiv Ramaswami
Kumar Sivarajan
Galen Sasaki
ISBN: 9780123740922
Copyright 2010

The third edition of Optical Networks continues to be the authoritative source for information on optical networking technologies and techniques. Componentry and transmission are discussed in detail with emphasis on practical networking issues that affect organizations as they evaluate, deploy, or develop optical networks. New updates in this rapidly changing technology are introduced. These updates include sections on pluggable optical transceivers, ROADM (reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer), and electronic dispersion compensation. Current standards updates such as G.709 OTN, as well as, those for GPON, EPON, and BPON are featured. Expanded discussions on multimode fiber with additional sections on photonic crystal and plastic fibers, as well as expanded coverage of Ethernet and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).   This book clearly explains all the hard-to-find information on architecture, control and management. It serves as your guide at every step of optical networking-- from planning to implementation through ongoing maintenance. This book is your key to thoroughly understanding practical optical networks... [more]

The Illustrated Network
How TCP/IP Works in a Modern Network
Walter Goralski
ISBN: 978012374541-5
Copyright 2009

In 1994, W. Richard Stevens and Addison-Wesley published a networking classic: TCP/IP Illustrated. The model for that book was a brilliant, unfettered approach to networking concepts that has proven itself over time to be popular with readers of beginning to intermediate networking knowledge. The Illustrated Network takes this time-honored approach and modernizes it by creating not only a much larger and more complicated network, but also by incorporating all the networking advancements that have taken place since the mid-1990s — namely the convergence of data, voice, video, and other services onto a single shared infrastructure... [more]

TCP/IP Sockets in C, 2nd Edition
Practical Guide for Programmers
Michael J. Donahoo
Kenneth L. Calvert
ISBN: 978012374540-8
Copyright 2009

TCP/IP Sockets in C: Practical Guide for Programmers, 2nd Edition is a quick and affordable way to gain the knowledge and skills needed to develop sophisticated and powerful web-based applications. The book's focused, tutorial-based approach enables the reader to master the tasks and techniques essential to virtually all client-server projects using sockets in C. This edition has been expanded to include new advancements such as support for IPv6 as well as detailed defensive programming strategies... [more]

Wireless Networking
Anurag Kumar
D. Manjunath
Joy Kuri
ISBN: 978012374254-4
Copyright 2008

Wireless Networking concentrates on the three main components of wireless networks: fixed wireless networks, mobile access networks, and wireless mesh, ad hoc, and sensor networks. This book explores the problems and solutions encountered in these three main types of wireless networks. The authors present wireless networking problems and solutions within the underlying framework of resource allocation while sharing a wireless spectrum (i.e., modeling and analysis, optimization and control). Part I of the book provides a foundational perspective of wireless communications, or the physical (PHY) layer, which informs the models needed to understand later portion of the book. Part II covers fixed wireless access networks, those networks that have a fixed infrastructure such as base stations or one-hop access points. Part III covers mobile access networks, covering emerging areas such as ad hoc, mesh, and wireless sensor networks. A three-part structure is used to describe and explain the concepts and practices: 1) state the problem; 2) state the issues to be resolved; 3) set forth the solution in mathematical and/or practical terms... [more]

P2P Networking and Applications
John Buford
Heather Yu
Eng Lua
ISBN: 978012374214-8
Copyright 2008

Although originally popularized by unlicensed online music services such as Napster, P2P networking has recently emerged as a viable multimillion dollar business model for the distribution of academic and clinical information, telecommunications, and social networking. Written at an accessible level for any reader familiar with fundamental Internet protocols, P2P Networking and Applications explains the conceptual operations and architecture underlying basic P2P systems using well-known commercial systems as models. The book delineates the latest research directions, thereby providing not only a sophisticated understanding of current systems, but also the means to improve upon these systems with innovations that will better performance, security, and flexibility. P2P Networking and Applications is a valuable starting point and an important reference... [more]

Digital Watermarking and Steganography, 2nd Edition
Ingemar Cox
Matthew Miller
Jeffrey Bloom
Jessica Fridrich
Ton Kalker
ISBN: 978012372585-1
Copyright 2008

The second edition of Digital Watermarking and Steganography provides an update on the framework for applying these techniques from the first well-received edition. Steganography and steganalysis (the art of detecting hidden information) have been added to a robust treatment of digital watermarking, as many in each field research and deal with the other. New material includes watermarking with side information, QIM, and dirty-paper codes. The revision and inclusion of new material by these influential authors has created a must-own book for anyone in this profession... [more]

TCP/IP Sockets in Java, 2nd Edition
Practical Guide for Programmers
Kenneth Calvert
Michael Donahoo
ISBN: 9780123-74255-1
Copyright 2008

Most Internet applications use sockets to implement network communication protocols. TCP/IP Sockets in Java, with its focused, tutorial-based approach helps you master the tasks and techniques essential to virtually all client-server projects using sockets in Java. Later chapters teach the reader to implement more specialized functionality including programming constructs and protocol implementation. No other resource presents so concisely or so effectively the material necessary to get up and running with Java sockets programming... [more]

Wireless Communications & Networking
Vijay Garg
ISBN: 978012373580-5
Copyright 2007

Wireless Communications & Networking provides comprehensive coverage of mobile data networking and mobile communications under a single cover for diverse audiences including managers, practicing engineers, and students who need to understand this industry. In the last two decades, many books have been written on the subject of wireless communications and networking. However, mobile data networking and mobile communications were not fully addressed in a unified fashion. This book fills that gap in the literature and is written to provide essentials of wireless communications and wireless networking, including Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN), Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), and Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWAN)... [more]

Network Routing
Algorithms, Protocols, and Architectures
Deepankar Medhi
Karthikeyan Ramasamy
ISBN: 978012-088588-6
Copyright 2007

Network routing can be broadly categorized into Internet routing, PSTN routing, and telecommunication transport network routing. Network Routing systematically considers these routing paradigms, as well as their interoperability. The authors discuss how algorithms, protocols, analysis, and operational deployment impact these approaches. A unique feature of the book is consideration of both macro-state and micro-state in routing; that is, how routing is accomplished at the level of networks and how routers or switches are designed to enable efficient routing... [more]

Network Analysis, Architecture, and Design, 3rd Edition
James McCabe
ISBN: 978012370480-1
Copyright 2007

Computer networks are now integral to every part of our lives. Connected to the Internet from morning til night, at home and at work, sitting in your study or linked wirelessly through a Starbucks 'hot spot,' computer networking design is of the utmost importance. Using a 'systems methodology' approach, McCabe views the network as part of a larger and infinitely complex system interacting with mechanisms outside of itself. The organic flow of the book from analysis to architecture to design instills the reader with the information and skill to create, upgrade, and fix networks. With examples, guidelines, and general principles Network Analysis, Architecture, and Design illuminates how a network begins as a concept, is built with addressing protocol, routing, and management, and harmonizes with the interconnected technology around it. This is an essential book for any professional that will be designing or working with a network on a routine basis... [more]

Introduction to Data Compression, 3rd Edition
Khalid Sayood
ISBN: 978012-620862-7
Copyright 2006

Each edition of Introduction to Data Compression has widely been considered the best introduction and reference text on the art and science of data compression, and the third edition continues in this tradition. Data compression techniques and technology are ever-evolving with new applications in image, speech, text, audio, and video. The third edition includes all the cutting edge updates the reader will need during the work day and in class. This edition provides an extensive introduction to the theory underlying today’s compression techniques with detailed instruction for their applications using several examples to explain the concepts. Encompassing the entire field of data compression Introduction to Data Compression, includes lossless and lossy compression, Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, dictionary techniques, context based compression, scalar and vector quantization... [more]

Network Algorithmics
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices
George Varghese
ISBN: 9780120884773
Copyright 2005

Author George Varghese begins by laying out the implementation bottlenecks that are most often encountered at four disparate levels of implementation: protocol, OS, hardware, and architecture. He then derives 15 solid principles—ranging from the commonly recognized to the groundbreaking—that are key to breaking these bottlenecks. The rest of the book is devoted to a systematic application of these principles to bottlenecks found specifically in endnodes, interconnect devices, and specialty functions such as security and measurement that can be located anywhere along the network. This immensely practical, clearly presented information will benefit anyone involved with network implementation, as well as students who have made this work their goal... [more]

Content Networking
Architecture, Protocols, And Practice
Markus Hofmann
Leland Beaumont
ISBN: 9781558608344
Copyright 2005

As the Internet has grown, so have the challenges associated with delivering static, streaming, and dynamic content to end-users. Content Networking is unique in that it addresses the topic of content networking exclusively and comprehensively, tracing the evolution from traditional web caching to today's open and vastly more flexible architecture. With this evolutionary approach, the authors emphasize the field's most persistent concepts, principles, and mechanisms—the core information that will help you understand why and how content delivery works today, and apply that knowledge in the future... [more]

Network Security
A Practical Approach
Jan Harrington
ISBN: 9780123116338
Copyright 2005

Network Security is a comprehensive resource written for anyone who plans or implements network security measures, including managers and practitioners. You get all the hands-on technical advice you need to succeed, but also higher-level administrative guidance for developing an effective security policy. There may be no such thing as absolute security, but, as the author clearly demonstrates, there is a huge difference between the protection offered by routine reliance on third-party products and what you can achieve by actively making informed decisions. You’ll learn to do just that with this book’s assessments of the risks, rewards, and trade-offs related implementing security measures... [more]

Network Recovery
Protection and Restoration of Optical, SONET-SDH, IP, and MPLS
Jean-Philippe Vasseur
Mario Pickavet
Piet Demeester
ISBN: 9780127150512
Copyright 2004

Network Recovery is the first book to provide detailed information on protecting and restoring communication networks, and it sets a sky-high standard for any that may follow. Inside, you’ll learn specific techniques that work at each layer of the networking hierarchy—including optical, SONET-SDH, IP, and MPLS—as well as multi-layer escalation strategies that offer the highest level of protection. The authors begin with an incisive introduction to the issues that define the field of network protection and restoration, and as the book progresses they explain everything you need to know about the relevant protocols, providing theoretical analyses wherever appropriate. If you work for a network-dependent organization, large or small, you’ll want to keep Network Recovery within reach at all times... [more]

Wireless Sensor Networks
An Information Processing Approach
Feng Zhao
Leonidas J. Guibas
ISBN: 9781558609143
Copyright 2004

Wireless Sensor Networks reviews the diverse technologies and techniques that interact in today’s wireless sensor networks. At every step, you are guided by the high-level information-processing tasks that determine how these networks are architected and administered. Zhao and Guibas begin with the canonical problem of localizing and tracking moving objects, then systematically examine the many fundamental sensor network issues that spring from it, including network discovery, service establishment, data routing and aggregation, query processing, programming models, and system organization... [more]

Communication Networking
An Analytical Approach
Anurag Kumar
D. Manjunath
Joy Kuri
ISBN: 9780124287518
Copyright 2004

The focus of Communication Networking is on the three building blocks out of which a communication network is constructed: multiplexing, switching, and routing. The progression is natural: the authors begin with individual physical links and proceed to their combination in a network. The approach is analytical: discussion is driven by mathematical analyses of and solutions to specific engineering problems. The result? A comprehensive, effectively organized introduction to the realities of communication network engineering. Written for both the workplace and the classroom, this book lays the foundation and provides the answers required for building an efficient, state-of-the-art network—one that can expand to meet growing demand and evolve to capitalize on coming technological advances... [more]

Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks
Michal Pioro
Deepankar Medhi
ISBN: 9780125571890
Copyright 2004

In network design, the gap between theory and practice is woefully broad. Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks narrows it, comprehensively and critically examining current network design models and methods. You will learn where mathematical modeling and algorithmic optimization have been under-utilized. At the opposite extreme, you will learn where they tend to fail to contribute to the twin goals of network efficiency and cost-savings. Most of all, you will learn precisely how to tailor theoretical models to make them as useful as possible in practice... [more]

MPLS Network Management
MIBs, Tools, and Techniques
Thomas D. Nadeau
ISBN: 9781558607514
Copyright 2004 

MPLS Network Management is the first book that helps you master MPLS management technologies and techniques, as they apply to classic MPLS networks, traffic-engineered networks, and VPNs. Written by the co-author of most current MPLS management standards, it provides detailed, authoritative coverage of official MIBs, examining key topics ranging from syntax to access levels to object interaction. It also offers extensive consideration of third-party management interfaces, including tools for metering traffic and predicting traffic growth and behavior. If you're a network operator, network device engineer, or MPLS application developer, you need this book to get all you can out of all of MPLS's many capabilities... [more]

Internet QoS
Architectures and Mechanisms for Quality of Service
Zheng Wang
ISBN: 9781558606081
Copyright 2001 

Internet QoS is the first book to dig deep into the issues that affect your ability to provide performance and prioritization guarantees to your customers and users! This book gives a comprehensive view of key technologies and discusses various analytical techniques to help you get the most out of network resources as you strive to make, and adhere to, meaningful QoS guarantees. Internet QoS is a reliable guide to the lates QoS techniques that addresses the Internet’s special challenges... [more]

Modern Cable Television Technology, 2nd Edition
Walter Ciciora
Michael Adams
James Farmer
David Large
ISBN: 9781558608283
Copyright 2001

Fully updated, revised, and expanded, this second edition of Modern Cable Television Technology addresses the significant changes undergone by cable since 1999—including, most notably, its continued transformation from a system for delivery of television to a scalable-bandwidth platform for a broad range of communication services. It provides in-depth coverage of high speed data transmission, home networking, IP-based voice, optical dense wavelength division multiplexing, new video compression techniques, integrated voice/video/data transport, and much more... [more]

Integrated Management of Networked Systems
Concepts, Architectures and their Operational Application
Heinz-Gerd Hegering
Sebastian Abeck
Bernhard Neumair
ISBN: 9781558605718
Copyright 1999

"This is a comprehensive book covering architecture, implementation, and operational use of all the current approaches to management-OSI/TMN, SNMP, CORBA, DMTF, and Web-based. It not only covers most of the modern approaches to management but also includes interoperation between these approaches and the use of stand-alone tools such as protocol analyzers. It will be very useful as a reference book for students, researchers, and industry practitioners." —Professor Morris Sloman, Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine... [more]

Digital Compression for Multimedia
Principles & Standards
Jerry Gibson
Toby Berger
Tom Lookabaugh
Rich Baker
David Lindbergh
ISBN: 9781558603691
Copyright 1998

Drawing on their experience in industry, research, and academia, this powerful author team combines their expertise to provide an accessible guide to data compression standards and techniques and their applications. The essential ideas and motivation behind the various compression methods are presented, and insight is provided into the evolution of the standards. Standards-compliant design alternatives are discussed, and some noncompliant designs also are treated.