A Professional's Guide to Data Communication in a TCP/IP World

This hands-on resource provides you with a comprehensive picture of the Internet protocol stack and the role of TCP/IP in data communication. It serves as a detailed guide to the protocols, networks, codes, signals, and equipment that make it possible to communicate using TCP/IP. You find complete bit-level descriptions of the functions performed by the headers and frames of the TCP/IP suite, making it easy for you to analyze individual data packets. The book offers you a through understanding of advanced LAN and WAN technologies, and gives you an integrated view of bridging, routing and tagging operations.

Carne, an electrical engineer who has worked in telecommunications in both corporate and military environments, overviews the Internet protocol stack and the role of TCP/IP in data communications, describing the TCP/IP suite in some detail. He assumes readers are familiar with common telecommunications terms and practices, but appends a review of the basic concepts. His guide explains the protocols, networks, codes, signals, and equipment that make it possible to communicate using TCP/IP; advanced local and wide area technologies; and an integrated view of loop bridging, routing, tagging, and labeling operations. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

E. Bryan Carne has extensive professional experience working for GTE Laboratories, where he directed the telecommunications programs In addition, he worked in key positions for contractors associated with military communications and intelligence collection programs. More recently, Dr. Carne served as a visiting professor of electrical engineering at Northeastern University and a visiting professor of telecommunications and information systems at Christian Brothers University. He is a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of London.