An introduction to computer networks
Introduction: what's a network?
Roadmap
Basic concepts
Overview
Data encoding-1
Data encoding-2
Data transport: packet
Physical transport of data: frames
The TCP/IP model
The TCP/IP model: history
The TCP/IP model: overview-1
The TCP/IP model: overview-2
The TCP/IP model: terminology
TCP/IP: IP address-1
TCP/IP: IP address-2
TCP/IP: IP address-3
TCP/IP: IP packet
TCP/IP: TCP transport-1
TCP/IP: TCP transport-2
TCP/IP: TCP transport-3
TCP/IP: UDP transport-1
TCP/IP: UDP transport-2
End-to-end communication: IP routing-1
End-to-end communication: IP routing-2
Another services: DNS-1
Another services: DNS-2
Summary
Some specific examples
Introduction: A classification
LAN: Ethernet-1
LAN: Ethernet-2
LAN: Ethernet-3
LAN: Ethernet-4
LAN: Ethernet-5
LAN: Ethernet-6
LAN: FDDI-1
LAN: FDDI-2
LAN: Ethernet versus FDDI
WAN: ATM-1
WAN: ATM-2
MAN: DQDB-1
MAN: DQDB-2
Home connection
Other examples
Some security considerations
Security: 3 aspects
Security: The tools
Security: Scheme
Sample applications of computer networks
E-mail-1
E-mail-2
E-mail-3
E-mail-4
E-mail-5
E-mail-6
the WEB-1
the WEB-2
the WEB-3
the WEB-4
the WEB-5
the WEB-6
the WEB-7
File transfer and sharing-1
File transfer and sharing-2
File transfer and sharing-3
Distributed computing-1
Distributed computing-2
Bibliography
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