Computer Networks and the Internet

Author: Douglas Comer
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: For application services provided on the Internet, such as web browsing and instant messaging technology, best-selling author and network technology expert Douglas Comer gives us a panoramic view. Based on the previous edition, this book adds several chapters on Internet technologies, explaining the entire knowledge from Internet applications to the underlying packet transmission, demonstrating how protocols are layered, and also describing how higher layers use layered protocol services. Written by best-selling author and computer network expert Douglas Comer, the book is divided into five parts. Part I outlines the use and construction of Internet applications; Part II covers the knowledge of data transmission, including transmission media, local asynchronous communication, long-distance communication, etc.; Part III discusses packet switching, introducing next-hop routing, switching, and protocol layering after describing various network characteristics, and elaborates on the process of packet switching in detail with Ethernet, FDDI, token ring, and ATM. Part IV focuses on network interconnection, primarily introducing the TCP and ARP protocols; Part V covers network applications, starting with the client/server model, describing the Domain Name System (DNS) and domain name resolution in applications, file transfer, and web browsing, including the explanation and application of dynamic CGI documents and active Java documents. This book is suitable for senior undergraduate students in computer science and low-graduate students lacking network knowledge.