Networking Fundamentals by Kaveh Pahlavan, Prashant Krishnamu... - 9780470992906

Networking FundamentalsWide, Local and Personal Area Communications\nAuthor(s): Kaveh Pahlavan, Prashant Krishnamurthy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9780470992906, 978-0470992906\nSynopsis\nFocusing on the physical layer, Networking Fundamentals provides essential information on networking technologies that are used in both wired and wireless networks designed for local area networks (LANs) and wide-area networks (WANs). The book starts with an overview of telecommunications followed by four parts, each including several chapters. Part I explains the principles of design and analysis of information networks at the lowest layers. It concentrates on the characteristics of the transmission media, applied transmission and coding, and medium access control. Parts II and III are devoted to detailed descriptions of important WANs and LANs respectively with Part II describing the wired Ethernet and Interns