William Stallings

Objectives This book attempts to provide a unified overview of the broad field of data and computer communications. The organization of the book reflects an attempt to break this massive subject into comprehensible parts and to build, piece by piece, a survey of the state of the art. The book...

Preface The Department of Defense (DOD) has promulgated a set of military standards for computer communications protocols. These protocols are required on virtually all military procurements. In addition, most existing computer and terminal concentration equipment in use within the DOD is being...

Preface In the early 1970s, networks that interconnected computers and terminals began to appear. The primary motivations were to share expensive computing resources and minimize data transmission costs. Since that time, the rapid proliferation of minicomputers and personal computers has...