Advanced Data Communications and Networks [Paperback]

The use of data communications and computer networks is constantly increasing, bringing benefits to most of the countries and peoples of the world, and serving as the lifeline of industry. Now there is a textbook that discusses data communications and networking in a readable form that can be easily understood by students who will become the IS professionals of the future.

Advanced Data Communications and Networks provides a comprehensive and practical treatment of rapidly evolving areas. The text is divided into seven main sections and appendices:
General data compression
Video, images, and sound
Error coding and encryption
TCP/IP and the Internet
Network operating systems
LANs/WANs
Cables and connectors

Other topics include error detection/correction, image/video compression, digital video, digital audio, TCP/IP, HTTP, electronic mail, HTML, Windows NT, NetWare, UNIX, Fast Ethernet, ATM, FDDI, and much more.

Written by a respected academician who is also an accomplished engineer, this textbook uses the author's wide practical experience in applying techniques and theory toward solving real engineering problems. It also includes an accompanying Web site that contains software, source code, and other supplemental information.INTRODUCTION
Introduction
A Little Bit of History
Information
Digital versus Analogue
Conversion to Digital
Sampling Theory
Quantization
Exercises

COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES
Introduction
Compression Methods
Letter Probabilities
Coding Methods
Statistical Encoding
Repetitive Sequence Suppression
Differential Encoding
Transform Encoding
Exercises
Letter Probability Program

HUFFMAN/LEMPEL-ZIV COMPRESSION METHODS
Introduction
Huffman Coding
Adaptive Huffman Coding
Lempel-Ziv Coding
Lempel-Ziv-Welsh CodinlÓ^