Computer networking : a top-down approach

Content: Computer Networks And The Internet: --
What is the Internet?: --
Nuts-and-bolts description --
Services description --
What is a protocol? --
Network edge: --
Access networks --
Physical media --
Network core: --
Packet switching --
Circuit switching --
Network of networks --
Delay, loss, and throughput in packet-switched networks: --
Overview of delay in packet-switched networks --
Queuing delay and packet loss --
End-to-end delay --
Throughput in computer networks --
Protocol layers and their service models: --
Layered architecture --
Encapsulation --
Networks under attack --
History of computer networking and the Internet: --
Development of packet switching: 1961-1972 --
Proprietary networks and Internetworking: 1972-1980 --
Proliferation of networks: 1980-1990 --
Internet explosion: 1990s --
New millennium --
Summary --
Homework problems and questions --
Wireshark Lab --
Interview: Leonard Kleinrock --
Application Layer: --
Principles of network applications: --
Network application architectures --
Processes communicating --
Transport services available to applications --
Transport services provided by the Internet --
Application-layer protocols --
Network applications covered in this book --
Web and HTTP: --
Overview of HTTP --
Non-persistent and persistent connections --
HTTP message format --
User-server interaction: cookies --
Web caching --
Conditional GET --
File Transfer: FTP: --
FTP commands and replies --
Electronic mail in the Internet: --
SMTP --
Comparison with HTTP --
Mail message formats --
Mail access protocols --
DNS-Internet's directory service: --
Services provided by DNS --
Overview of how DNS works --
DNS records and messages --
Peer-to-peer applications: --
P2P File distribution --
Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) --
Socket programming: creating network applications: --
Socket programming with UDP --
Socket programming with TCP --
Summary --
Homework problems and questions --
Socket programming assignments --
Wireshark Labs: HTTP, DNS --
Interview: Marc Andreessen --
Transport Layer: --
Introduction and transport-layer services: --
Relationship between transport and network layers --
Overview of the transport layer in the Internet --
Multiplexing and demultiplexing --
Connectionless transport: UDP: --
UDP Segment structure --
UDP Checksum --
Principles of reliable data transfer: --
Building a reliable data transfer protocol --
Pipelined reliable data transfer protocols --
Go-Back-N (GBN) --
Selective Repeat (SR) --
Connection-Oriented Transport: TCP: --
TCP Connection --
TCP Segment structure --
Round-trip time estimation and timeout --
Reliable data transfer --
Flow control --
TCP connection management --
Principles of congestion control: --
Causes and the costs of congestion --
Approaches to congestion control --
Network-assisted congestion-control example: ATM ABR congestion control --
TCP congestion control: --
Fairness --
Summary --
Homework problems and questions --
Programming assignments --
Wireshark Labs: TCP, UDP --
Interview: Van Jacobson --
Network Layer: --
Introduction: --
Forwarding and routing --
Network service models --
Virtual circuit and datagram networks: --
Virtual-circuit networks --
Datagram networks --
Origins of VC and datagram networks --
What's inside a router?: --
Input processing --
Switching --
Output processing --
Where does queuing occur? --
Routing control plane --
Internet Protocol (IP): forwarding and addressing in the Internet: --
Datagram format --
IPv4 addressing --
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) --
IPv6 --
Brief foray into IP security --
Routing algorithms: --
Link-State (LS) routing algorithm --
Distance-Vector (DV) routing algorithm --
Hierarchical routing --
Routing in the Internet: --
Intra-AS routing in the Internet: RIP --
Intra-AS routing in the Internet: OSPF --
Inter-AS routing: BGP --
Broadcast and multicast routing: --
Broadcast routing algorithms --
Multicast --
Summary --
Homework problems and questions --
Programming assignments --
Wireshark Labs: IP, ICMP --
Interview: Vinton G Cerf. Link Layer: Links, Access Networks, And LANs: --
Introduction to the link layer: --
Services provided by the link layer --
Where is the link layer implemented? --
Error detection and -correction techniques: --
Parity checks --
Checksumming methods --
Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) --
Multiple access links and protocols: --
Channel partitioning protocols --
Random access protocols --
Taking-turns protocols --
DOCSIS: Link-layer protocol for cable Internet access --
Switched local area networks: --
Link-layer addressing and ARP --
Ethernet --
Link-layer switches --
Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) --
Link virtualization: network as a link layer: --
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) --
Data center networking: --
Retrospective: Day in the life of a web page request: --
Getting started: DHCP, UDP, IP, and Ethernet --
Still getting started: DNS and ARP --
Still getting started: intra-domain routing to the DNS server --
Web client-server interaction: TCP and HTTP --
Summary --
Homework problems and questions --
Wireshark Labs: Ethernet and ARP, DHCP --
Interview: Simon S Lam --
Wireless And Mobile Networks: --
Introduction --
Wireless links and network characteristics: --
CDMA --
WiFi: 802_11 wireless LANs --
802_11 Architecture --
802_11 MAC Protocol --
IEEE 802_11 Frame --
Mobility in the same IP subnet --
Advanced features in 802_11 --
Personal area networks: Bluetooth and Zigbee --
Cellular Internet access: --
Overview of cellular network architecture --
3G cellular data networks: extending the Internet to cellular subscribers --
On to 4G: LTE --
Mobility management: principles: --
Addressing --
Routing to a mobile node --
Mobile IP --
Managing mobility in cellular networks: --
Routing calls to a mobile user --
Handoffs in GSM --
Wireless and mobility: impact on higher-layer protocols --
Summary --
Homework problems and questions --
Wireshark Lab: IEEE 802_11 (WiFi) --
Interview: Deborah Estrin --
Multimedia Networking: --
Multimedia networking applications: --
Properties of video --
Properties of audio --
Types of multimedia network applications --
Streaming stored video: --
UDP Streaming --
HTTP Streaming --
Adaptive streaming and DASH --
Content distribution networks --
Case Studies: Netflix, YouTube, and KanKan --
Voice-over-IP: --
Limitations of the best-effort IP service --
Removing jitter at the receiver for audio --
Recovering from packet loss --
Case Study: VoIP with Skype --
Protocols for real-time conversational applications --
RTP --
SIP --
Network support for multimedia: --
Dimensioning best-effort networks --
Providing multiple classes of service --
Diffserv --
Per-connection Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees: resource reservation and call admission --
Summary --
Homework problems and questions --
Programming assignment --
Interview: Henning Schulzrinne --
Security In Computer Networks: --
What is network security? --
Principles of cryptography: --
Symmetric key cryptography --
Public key encryption --
Message integrity and digital signatures: --
Cryptographic hash functions --
Message authentication code --
Digital signatures --
End-point authentication: --
Authentication Protocol ap1-0 --
Authentication Protocol ap2-0 --
Authentication Protocol ap3-0 --
Authentication Protocol ap3-1 --
Authentication Protocol ap4_0 --
Securing E-mail: --
Secure E-mail --
PGP --
Securing TCP connections: SSL --
Big picture --
More complete picture --
Network-layer security: IPsec and virtual private networks: --
IPsec and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) --
AH and ESP protocols --
Security associations --
IPsec datagram --
IKE: Key management in IPsec --
Securing wireless LANs: --
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) --
IEEE802_11i --
Operational security: firewalls and intrusion detection systems: --
Firewalls --
Intrusion detection systems --
Summary --
Homework problems and questions --
Wireshark Lab: SSL --
IPsec Lab --
Interview: Steven M Bellovin --
Network Management: --
What is network management? --
Infrastructure for network management --
Internet-standard management framework: --
Structure of Management Information: SMI --
Management Information Base: MIB --
SNMP Protocol operations and transport mappings --
Security and administration --
ASN- --
Conclusion --
Homework problems and questions --
Interview: Jennifer Rexford --
References --
Index.