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Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (4th Edition)
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by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross
Sales Rank: 9492
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List Price: $104.67
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Hardcover: 880 pages
Publisher: Addison Wesley; 4 edition April 2, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321497708
ISBN-13: 978-0321497703
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
Book Description
Building on the successful top-down approach of previous editions, the Fourth Edition of Computer Networking continues with an early emphasis on application-layer paradigms and application programming interfaces, encouraging a hands-on experience with protocols and networking concepts. With this edition, Kurose and Ross bring the issues of network security to the forefront, along with integration of the most current and relevant networking technologies.
Computer Networks and the Internet; Application Layer; Transport Layer; The Network Layer; The Link Layer and Local Area Networks; Wireless and Mobile Networks; Multimedia Networking; Security in Computer Networks; Network Management.
For all readers interested in computer networking technologies.
About The Author
James Kurose teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research interests include network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation. He received his PhD from Columbia University.
Keith Ross is a professor of computer science at Polytechnic University. He has worked in peer-to-peer networking, Internet measurement, video streaming, Web caching, multi-service loss networks, content distribution networks, voice over IP, optimization, queuing theory, optimal control of queues, and Markov decision processes. Professor Ross received his PhD in Computer and Control Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I have seen an earlier edition of this book and was hoping this newer one would be better. The author concentrates way too much on analogies for describing something, and you have to spent countless hours reading a bunch of stuff for very little information. Maybe if you are a complete idiot this might be helpful, but not otherwise. Next the questions at the end of the chapters are somewhat hard, but the text in general does not give a way to answer most all that have to deal with any type of calculation. Some of the slides that the instructor shows help to cover information for the questions, but that is a terrible organization for training material. Slides should simply be an overview of main points, and not the way to answer more difficult questions. For the author: A good analogy of the above circumstance is that the chapters talk about bubble gum, while the questions in the back cover rocket science. I wish our campus would tell professors they can't use this book. There are much better ones out there. I would give names but I don't believe in doing that on a review.
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