Overview
- Introductory textbook in this area, sufficient for undergraduates but also accessible for business professionals
- Second edition revised and updated with new content
- Supported by downloadable exercises with solutions, and teaching slides
- Request lecturer material: sn.pub/lecturer-material
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTICS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Features: provides chapter-ending summaries and review questions, an Appendix on TCP/IP packet formats and an expanded Glossary; supplies supplementary material at the associated Springer website, including teaching slides, solutions to the end-of-chapter questions and supplementary exercises with solutions; presents a greater emphasis on mobile computing and network security, and extended coverage of IPv6 (NEW); discusses networking models and standards, local area and wide area networks, network protocols, TCP/IP-based networks, network management and wireless communications; examines grid and cloud computing, microblogging, mobile ad hoc networks, near-field communication, Power over Ethernet and the Ground Positioning System (NEW).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communications and Networking
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Authors: John Cowley
Series Title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4357-4
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-4356-7Published: 11 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4357-4Published: 14 September 2012
Series ISSN: 1863-7310
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1781
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIX, 235
Number of Illustrations: 176 b/w illustrations
Topics: Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks