Computer Network (Engineering Category) (Engineering Category)

Author: YouluZheng
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This book is a textbook on data communication and networks, featuring unique software projects and a lab-based approach. Due to its ingenious and distinctive characteristics, it has been endorsed by the National Science Foundation of the United States' Curriculum Development Committee and partially funded. Designed for university undergraduates, it covers both fundamental theories and modern technologies. The teacher's manual and CD provide detailed step-by-step instructions for configuring client/server computers, hubs, routers, and switches. This allows for the establishment of cost-effective prototype network labs, enabling the implementation of Web (HTTP), E-mail, VPN, and other servers. This prototype lab is based on Linux and other popular platforms, demonstrating how different protocols and components are integrated into heterogeneous networks. Additionally, it provides an ideal environment for discovering and solving problems as well as experimenting with network management. The accompanying software projects (included in the teacher's CD) are not just examples but complete packages, containing real-world applications and utilities written in Java, C, C++, and assembly language, and have been thoroughly tested by professors and students from several universities. Using both "Computer Networks (Engineering)" and the accompanying lab projects actively engages students in the learning process, offering opportunities to generate important ideas, propose problem solutions, and cultivate creativity in the real world with numerous constraints. This book is a textbook on data communication and networks, featuring unique software projects and a lab-based approach. Due to its ingenious and distinctive characteristics, it has been endorsed by the National Science Foundation of the United States' Curriculum Development Committee and partially funded. Designed for university undergraduates, it covers both fundamental theories and modern technologies.