Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 5 Edition

Addison Wesley | 2009 | ISBN: 0136079679 | 864 pages | PDF | 430 Mb

Certain data-communication protocols hog the spotlight, but all of them have a lot in common. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet explains the engineering problems that are inherent in communicating digital information from point to point. The top-down approach mentioned in the subtitle means that the book starts at the top of the protocol stack–at the application layer–and works its way down through the other layers, until it reaches bare wire.