About The Book:
Type Of file: PDF
File Size: 9.43MB
Pages: 679
Authors: James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross
Description:
The unusual feature of the text is its Internet focus. Most of the existing textbooks begin with a
broader perspective and address the Internet as just as one of many computer network technologies. We
instead put Internet protocols in the spotlight, and use the Internet protocols as motivation for studying
some of the more fundamental computer networking concepts. But why put the Internet in the spotlight,
why not some other networking technology such as ATM? Most computer networking students have had
already significant "hands on" experience with the Internet (e.g., surfing the Web and sending e-mail at
the very least) before taking a course on computer networks. We have found that modern-day students in
computer science and electrical engineering, being intensive users of the Internet, are enormously
curious about what is under the hood of the Internet. Thus, it is easy to get students excited about
computer networking when using the Internet as your guiding vehicle. A second reason for the Internet
focus is that in recent years computer networking has become synonymous with the Internet. This wasn't
the case five-to-ten years ago, when there was a lot of talk about ATM LANs and applications direclty
interfacing with ATM (without passing through TCP/IP). But we have now reached the point where just
about all data traffic is carried over the Internet or intranets. Furthermore, streaming audio and video
have recently become commonplace in the Internet, and someday telephony may be too. Because our
book has an Internet focus, it is organized around a five-layer Internet architecture rather than around the
more traditional seven-layer OSI architecture.
Type Of file: PDF
File Size: 9.43MB
Pages: 679
Authors: James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross
Description:
The unusual feature of the text is its Internet focus. Most of the existing textbooks begin with a
broader perspective and address the Internet as just as one of many computer network technologies. We
instead put Internet protocols in the spotlight, and use the Internet protocols as motivation for studying
some of the more fundamental computer networking concepts. But why put the Internet in the spotlight,
why not some other networking technology such as ATM? Most computer networking students have had
already significant "hands on" experience with the Internet (e.g., surfing the Web and sending e-mail at
the very least) before taking a course on computer networks. We have found that modern-day students in
computer science and electrical engineering, being intensive users of the Internet, are enormously
curious about what is under the hood of the Internet. Thus, it is easy to get students excited about
computer networking when using the Internet as your guiding vehicle. A second reason for the Internet
focus is that in recent years computer networking has become synonymous with the Internet. This wasn't
the case five-to-ten years ago, when there was a lot of talk about ATM LANs and applications direclty
interfacing with ATM (without passing through TCP/IP). But we have now reached the point where just
about all data traffic is carried over the Internet or intranets. Furthermore, streaming audio and video
have recently become commonplace in the Internet, and someday telephony may be too. Because our
book has an Internet focus, it is organized around a five-layer Internet architecture rather than around the
more traditional seven-layer OSI architecture.
