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Data Communication & Networks
An Engineering Approach
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James Irvine & David Harle, both of Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, UK
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0471 80872 5
November 2001
Hardback
288pp
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Data Communications and Networks uses a top-down, Internet-focussed approach to tackle the
problem of communication system design. An integrated approach is taken to networks and data
communications, with an emphasis that starts from the top level requirements and works
downwards, describing how such requirements are fulfilled by lower layers of the transmission
chain. While the book contains sufficient detail to provide an excellent foundation, clarity is
paramount and care is taken not to swamp the reader with information to the point where the
underlying concepts are obscured.
The Internet is used as the principle example of a communication system, allowing the reader to
follow the system from the application layers, with source coding and security, through the
network, with naming and routing algorithms, down to transport and physical aspects of a
communication system. Modern techniques such as mobile radio, Voice over IP, and ASDL, are
covered, while more traditional aspects such as circuit switching, which still form a
significant part of current systems, are not overlooked.
By providing a technical introduction and including application examples, this text will have
significant appeal to final year students, postgraduates and professionals with a science or
engineering background wishing to gain a basic understanding of the key concepts behind data
communications engineering.
Contents:
- Part 1: Information, networks and services.
- Part 2: How packets go from A to B: the network perspective.
- Part 3: How frames go from A to B: the link perspective.
- Part 4: How bits go from A to B: the physical perspective.
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