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- Copyright Date 2017
- Target Audience College Audience
- Topic Internet / General, Networking / General
- Lccn 2016-004976
- Dewey Decimal 004.6
- Dewey Edition 23
- Illustrated Yes
- Genre Computers
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by Feb 13, 2019
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Up to date information. Though generally I think, due to very high speed of research, authors need to come up with some better idea than churning out a new edition every so many years. Generally text books are getting too expensive these days. Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New Network Computing: A Top Down Approach
The book was purchased for a computer course required reading. It is an excellent source of reading material. Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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Advertised as exactly the same as the US edition, but there are differences found in the problem sets.
"Unique among computer networking texts, the Seventh Edition of the popular Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach builds on the author's long tradition of teaching this complex subject through a layered approach in a "top-down manner." The text works its way from the application layer down toward the physical layer, motivating students by exposing them to important concepts early in their study of networking. Focusing on the Internet and the fundamentally important issues of networking, this text provides an excellent foundation for students in computer science and electrical engineering, without requiring extensive knowledge of programming or mathematics. The Seventh Edition has been updated to reflect the most important and exciting recent advances in networking."--Publisher's website
Print Book, English, 2017
Publisher: Pearson, Boston, 2017
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Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, Global Edition
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We are developing online lectures [that can be used with the open knowledge check review questions and interactive problems] for students who are learning at a distance -- whether because of the pandemic or simply because it is not possible to have a synchronous face-to-face classroom experience. These are part of the material for an on-line [only] course that one of us [Jim] taught in the Fall of 2020, with additional material added after that. We're making this available to anyone who'd like to learn from this material, and hope folks will find them interesting and useful. There are a few missing sections in chapters 5 and 6, which we're working on in July 2021, with chapters 7 and 8 [which are typically covered only briefly, if at all, in an introductory networking course] to follow.
Jim Kurose is a Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently on leave from the University of Massachusetts, serving as an Assistant Director at the US National Science Foundation, where he leads the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering. Dr. Kurose has received a number of recognitions for his educational activities including Outstanding Teacher Awards from the National Technological University [eight times], the University of Massachusetts, and the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools. He received the IEEE Taylor Booth Education Medal and was recognized for his leadership of Massachusetts’ Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative. He has been the recipient of a GE Fellowship, an IBM Faculty Development Award, and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship.
Dr. Kurose is a former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Communications and of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has been active in the program committees for IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM Internet Measurement Conference, and ACM SIGMETRICS for a number of years and has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for those conferences. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. His research interests include network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.
Keith Ross is the Dean of Engineering and Computer Science at NYU Shanghai and the Leonard J. Shustek Chair Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at NYU. Previously he was at University of Pennsylvania [13 years], Eurecom Institute [5 years] and Polytechnic University [10 years]. He received a B.S.E.E from Tufts University, a M.S.E.E. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Computer and Control Engineering from The University of Michigan. Keith Ross is also the co-founder and original CEO of Wimba, which develops online multimedia applications for e-learning and was acquired by Blackboard in 2010.
Professor Ross’s research interests are in security and privacy, social networks, peer-to-peer networking, Internet measurement, video streaming, content distribution networks, and stochastic modeling. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, recipient of the Infocom 2009 Best Paper Award, and recipient of 2011 and 2008 Best Paper Awards for Multimedia Communications [awarded by IEEE Communications Society]. He has served on numerous journal editorial boards and conference program committees, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNext, and ACM Internet Measurement Conference. He also has served as an advisor to the Federal Trade Commission on P2P file sharing.
What is the top down approach in computer system?
In a top–down approach an overview of the system is formulated, specifying, but not detailing, any first-level subsystems. Each subsystem is then refined in yet greater detail, sometimes in many additional subsystem levels, until the entire specification is reduced to base elements.
What are the 7 types of computer networks?
Below are seven common types of networks, along with their benefits and use cases..
Personal area network. A personal area network [PAN] is the smallest and simplest type of network. ... .
Local area network. ... .
Metropolitan area network. ... .
Campus network. ... .
Wide area network. ... .
Content delivery network. ... .
Virtual private network..
What is the bottom up approach in computer networks?
Bottom-up Approach: This approach begins with the physical layer of the OSI model and works its way up. New, higher bandwidth links might be purchased, as well as new routers, switches, firewalls, etc. Designing a network with a bottom-up approach enables you to get your network set up much faster.
Why are standards important for protocols?
Why are Standards Important? Standards form the fundamental building blocks for product development by establishing consistent protocols that can be universally understood and adopted. This helps fuel compatibility and interoperability and simplifies product development, and speeds time-to-market.