Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 7/e

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For courses in Networking/Communications. Motivate your students with a top-down, layered approach to computer networking 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 issu.;Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; About the Authors; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Computer Networks and the Internet; 1.1. What Is the Internet?; 1.1.1. A Nuts-and-Bolts Description; 1.1.2. A Services Description; 1.1.3. What Is a Protocol?; 1.2. The Network Edge; 1.2.1. Access Networks; 1.2.2. Physical Media; 1.3. The Network Core; 1.3.1. Packet Switching; 1.3.2. Circuit Switching; 1.3.3. A Network of Networks; 1.4. Delay, Loss, and Throughput in Packet-Switched Networks; 1.4.1. Overview of Delay in Packet-Switched Networks; 1.4.2. Queuing Delay and Packet Loss; 1.4.3. End-to-End Delay.