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Computer Networking : Principles, Protocols and Practice, third edition

• Preface

Part 1: Principles

• Connecting two hosts
  • The physical layer
  • The datalink layer
    • Framing
    • Recovering from transmission errors
    • Reliable data transfer on top of an imperfect link
      • Go-back-n and selective repeat
• Building a network
  • The datagram organization
    • Computing forwarding tables
    • Flat or hierarchical addresses
    • Dealing with heterogeneous datalink layers
  • Virtual circuit organization
  • The control plane
    • Distance vector routing
    • Link state routing
• Applications
• The transport layer
  • Transport layer services
    • The connectionless service
    • The connection-oriented service
    • The request-response service
  • The transport layer
    • Connectionless transport
    • Connection establishment
    • Data transfer
    • Connection release
• Naming and addressing
  • Benefits of names
• Sharing resources
  • Sharing bandwidth
  • Network congestion
  • Distributing the load across the network
  • Medium Access Control algorithms
    • Static allocation methods
    • ALOHA
    • Carrier Sense Multiple Access
    • Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
    • Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
    • Deterministic Medium Access Control algorithms
  • Congestion control
    • Congestion control with a window-based transport protocol
• The reference models
  • The five layers reference model
  • The Physical layer
  • The Datalink layer
  • The Network layer
  • The Transport layer
  • The Application layer
  • Reference models
    • The TCP/IP reference model
    • The OSI reference model
• Network security
  • Threats
  • Cryptographic primitives
  • Cryptographic protocols
  • Key exchange

Part 2: Protocols

• The application layer
• The Domain Name System
• Electronic mail
  • The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
  • The Post Office Protocol
• The HyperText Transfer Protocol
• Making HTTP faster
• Remote Procedure Calls
  • Encoding data
  • Reaching the callee
• Remote login
  • The secure shell (ssh)
• Transport Layer Security
  • The TLS handshake
  • The TLS record protocol
  • Improving TLS
• Securing the Domain Name System
• Internet transport protocols
• The User Datagram Protocol
• The Transmission Control Protocol
  • TCP connection establishment
  • TCP reliable data transfer
    • Segment transmission strategies
  • TCP windows
  • TCP’s retransmission timeout
  • Advanced retransmission strategies
  • TCP connection release
• Congestion control
  • Controlling congestion without losing data
  • Modeling TCP congestion control
• The network layer
  • IP version 6
    • IPv6 addressing architecture
    • IPv6 packet format
  • ICMP version 6
  • The IPv6 subnet
    • Interactions between IPv6 and the datalink layer
• Routing in IP networks
• Intradomain routing
  • RIP
  • OSPF
• Interdomain routing
  • The Border Gateway Protocol
    • The BGP decision process
    • BGP convergence
• Datalink layer technologies
  • The Point-to-Point Protocol
  • Ethernet
    • Ethernet Switches
    • The Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1d)
    • Virtual LANs
  • 802.11 wireless networks

Part 3: Practice

• Exercises
• Reliable transfer
  • Open questions
  • Practice
  • Discussion questions
• Using sockets for inter-process communication
  • Sending data to a peer using a socket
  • Receiving data from a peer using a socket
  • connect: connecting a socket to a remote address
  • Creating a new socket to communicate through a network
    • Sending a message to a remote peer using its IPv6 address
  • Endianness: exchanging integers between different computers
  • Exercises
• Building a network
  • Multiple-choice questions
  • Open questions
  • Discussion questions
• Serving applications
  • Multiple choices questions
  • Open questions
  • Practice
  • Discussion questions
• Sharing resources
  • Medium Access Control
  • Fairness and congestion control
  • Discussion questions
• Application layer
  • The DNS
• Internet email protocols
• The HyperText Transfer Protocol
• TLS and ssh
• Analyzing packet traces
• TCP basics
• A closer look at TCP
  • Injecting segments in the Linux TCP stack
  • Open questions
• IPv6 Networks
  • Basic questions on IPv6 Networks
  • Design questions
  • Configuring IPv6 Networks
  • IPv6 packets
• Inter-domain routing
  • Exercises
• Exploring routing protocols
  • Exploring OSPF
  • Exploring RIP
  • Exploring BGP
  • Exercises
• Local Area Networks: The Spanning Tree Protocol and Virtual LANs
  • Exercises
  • Testing the Spanning Tree with IPMininet

Appendices

• Glossary
• Bibliography

Indices and tables

• Index

• Search Page

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