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Description
The fifth edition of Behrouz Forouzan's Data Communications and Networking presents a comprehensive and accessible approach to data communications and networking that has made this book a favorite with students and professionals alike. More than 830 figures and 150 tables accompany the text and provide a visual and intuitive opportunity for understanding the material. This unique approach minimizes the need for heavy math content, allowing normally complicated topics to unfold graphically and visually rather than through the presentation of complex formulas.

The global edition has been developed specifically to meet the needs of international computer networks students. In addition to a chapter on the peer-to-peer paradigm, a full chapter on quality of service (QoS), generous coverage of forward error correction, coverage of WiMAX, and material on socket-interface programming in Java, we have added new international end-of-chapter questions and problems to make the content more relevant and improve learning outcomes for the international student.

Features

  New Organization: The new edition has been reorganized to showcase recent developments in the field and minimize or eliminate coverage of deprecated topics.

  Peer-to-Peer paradigm has been added as a new chapter (Chapter 29).

  Quality of service (QoS) has been augmented and added as a new chapter (Chapter 30).

  WiMAX, as the wireless access network, has been added to Chapter 16.

  Socket-interface programming in Java has been added to Chapter 25.

  Chapter 28, on multimedia, has been totally revised and augmented.

  Contents of unicast and multicast routing (Chapters 20 and 21) have gone through a major change and have been augmented.

  The next generation IP has been augmented and now belongs to Chapter 22.

  New end-of-chapter questions and lab assignments allow international students to put their theoretical knowledge into practice.

  A `bottom-up' approach allows instructors to cover the material comprehensively in one course.

  Engaging examples illustrate the technical concepts while real-life applications motivate and inspire students.

  Each chapter concludes with pedagogical material including key terms, further reading, practice sets and problems and simulation experiments.