Table Of Contents

I. OVERVIEW.

1. Introduction.
2. Protocols and Architecture.

II. DATA COMMUNICATIONS.

3. Data Transmission.
4. Transmission Media.
5. Data Encoding.
6. The Datacommunication Interface.
7. Data Link Control.
8. Multiplexing.

III. WIDE-AREA NETWORKS.

9. Circuit Switching.
10. Packet Switching.
11. ATM and Frame Relay.
12. Congestion Control in Data Networks.

IV. LOCAL AREA NETWORKS.

13. LAN Technology.
14. LAN Systems.

V. COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS.

15. Internet Protocols.
16. Internetwork Operation.
17. Transport Protocols.
18. Network Security.
19. Distributed Applications.
Appendix A. ISDN and Broadband ISDN.
Appendix B. RFCs Cited in This Book.
Appendix C. Projects for Teaching Data and Computer Communications.
Glossary.
References.
Index.