Which book can cover the syllabus and help me gain in depth knowledge of the subject ?
Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
or
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by James F. Kurose, Keith W Ross
Syllabus
• Network, Network Protocols, Edge, Access Networks and Physical Media
• Protocol Layers and their services models, Internet Backbones, NAP's and ISPs
• Application Layer: Protocol and Service provided by application layer, transport protocols. The World Wide Web.
• HTTP, Message formats, User Server Interaction and Web caches.
• FTP commands and replies.
• Electronic Mail, SMTP, Mail Message Formats and MIME and Mail Access Protocols
• DNS The internet's directory service DNS records and Message.
• Transport Layer: Transport Layer Service and Principles, Multiplexing and Demultiplexing applications,
• Connectionless Transport. UDP Segment structure and UDP Checksum. Principles of Reliable Data Transfer-Go back to N and Selective Repeat.
• Connection Oriented Transport TCP Connection and Segment Structure, Sequence Numbers and acknowledgement numbers, Telnet, Round trip time and timeout. TCP connection management
• Network Layer and Routing: Network service model, Routing principles. Link State routing Algorithm, A distant Vector routing & OSPF algorithm.
• Router Components; Input Prot, Switching fabric and output port. IPV6 Packet format. Point To Point Protocol (PPP), transition States, PPP Layers-Physical Layer and Data Link Layer, Link Control Protocols. LCP Packets and options.
• Authentication PAP and CHAP, Network Control Protocol (NCP).
• Sonet/SDH: Synchronous Transport Signals. Physical configuration-SONET Devices, Sections, Lines and Paths.
• SONET Layers-Photonic Layer, section layer, line layer, path layer and device layer relationship.
• Sonet Frame format. Section overhead, Line overhead and path overhead. Virtual Tributaries and types of VTs.
Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
or
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by James F. Kurose, Keith W Ross
Syllabus
• Protocol Layers and their services models, Internet Backbones, NAP's and ISPs
• Application Layer: Protocol and Service provided by application layer, transport protocols. The World Wide Web.
• HTTP, Message formats, User Server Interaction and Web caches.
• FTP commands and replies.
• Electronic Mail, SMTP, Mail Message Formats and MIME and Mail Access Protocols
• DNS The internet's directory service DNS records and Message.
• Transport Layer: Transport Layer Service and Principles, Multiplexing and Demultiplexing applications,
• Connectionless Transport. UDP Segment structure and UDP Checksum. Principles of Reliable Data Transfer-Go back to N and Selective Repeat.
• Connection Oriented Transport TCP Connection and Segment Structure, Sequence Numbers and acknowledgement numbers, Telnet, Round trip time and timeout. TCP connection management
• Network Layer and Routing: Network service model, Routing principles. Link State routing Algorithm, A distant Vector routing & OSPF algorithm.
• Router Components; Input Prot, Switching fabric and output port. IPV6 Packet format. Point To Point Protocol (PPP), transition States, PPP Layers-Physical Layer and Data Link Layer, Link Control Protocols. LCP Packets and options.
• Authentication PAP and CHAP, Network Control Protocol (NCP).
• Sonet/SDH: Synchronous Transport Signals. Physical configuration-SONET Devices, Sections, Lines and Paths.
• SONET Layers-Photonic Layer, section layer, line layer, path layer and device layer relationship.
• Sonet Frame format. Section overhead, Line overhead and path overhead. Virtual Tributaries and types of VTs.
