Communications and networks / Lewis Mackenzie.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : McGraw-Hill, c1998.Description: xv, 544p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780077092733 (pbk.) :
- 0077092732
- 004.6 MAC
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 524-526) and index.
Chapter1.Introduction to Communications -- Chapter 2.Signal Transmission -- Chapter3.Digital Signalling -- Chapter 4.Networks -- Chapter 5.Protocols and Architectures -- Chapter 6.Link Level Protocols -- Chapter 7.Packet-Switched Networks -- Chapter 8.Broadcast Networks -- Chapter 9.Wide Area Broadband Networks -- Chapter 10.The Transport and Upper Layers -- Chapter 11. Application Issues.
This text aims to cover material in a concise but lucid manner and, as well as the fundamentals of wide and local area networks, it places in context topical material on subjects such as MANs satellites and fast and gigabit Ethernets.