Computer Networking : Principles, Protocols and Practice, fourth edition

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• Preface for the fourth edition
• Preface for the first editions

Part 1: Hosts

• Introduction
  • The physical layer
  • The datalink layer
    • Framing
    • Coping with transmission errors
  • The network layer
    • A primer on IP version 4
    • A primer on IP version 6
  • The transport layer
    • The connectionless transport service
    • The connection-oriented transport service
    • The request-response service
  • The transport layer
    • Connectionless transport
    • The User Datagram Protocol
• Networked applications
  • Naming and addressing
    • Benefits of names
    • The Domain Name System
  • Electronic mail
    • The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
    • The Post Office Protocol
  • The world wide web
    • The HyperText Transfer Protocol
    • HTTP version 2.0
  • Remote Procedure Calls
    • Encoding data
    • Reaching the callee
• Network security
  • Security threats
  • Cryptographic primitives
  • Cryptographic protocols
  • Key exchange
  • The secure shell (ssh)
  • Transport Layer Security
    • The TLS handshake
    • The TLS record protocol
    • Improving TLS
  • Securing the Domain Name System
• A reliable transport protocol
  • A simple reliable protocol
    • Reliable transfer above an imperfect link
    • The Alternating Bit Protocol
    • Go-back-n and selective repeat
  • Establishing a transport connection
  • Transferring data on a transport connection
  • Closing a transport connection
• 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
• QUIC
  • Frames and packets
  • Connection establishment
    • Identifying QUIC connections
    • Security keys
    • The QUIC packet headers
    • 0-RTT data
  • Closing a QUIC connection
    • Implicit termination of QUIC connections
    • Explicit termination of a QUIC connection
  • Exchanging data over a QUIC connection
    • Flow control in QUIC
    • QUIC Loss Detection
    • Observing QUIC connections
      • A closer look at other QUIC handshakes
      • Observing 0-RTT data in QUIC
      • QUIC streams
• Internet protocols
  • IP version 4
    • IPv4 packets
  • ICMP version 4
    • Operation of IPv4 hosts
  • IP version 6
    • IPv6 addressing architecture
    • IPv6 packet
    • ICMP version 6

Part 2: Networks

• 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
• 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
• 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
    • Congestion control
      • Controlling congestion without losing data
      • Modeling TCP congestion control

Part 3: Practice

Appendices

• Glossary
• Bibliography

Indices and tables

• Index

• Search Page