Communications and Networking: An Introduction

By John Cowley

Book Overview

This textbook presents a detailed introduction to the essentials of networking and communications technologies. Revised and updated, this new edition retains the step-by-step approach of the original, organised to help those without a strong knowledge of the subject matter.
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).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447143566
• ISBN13: 9781447143567
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"