(Latest Revision: 09/04/2002)
Notes On Chapter One
-- Introduction
Chapter One: Introduction;
- 1.1 Growth of Computer Networking
- Clearly the Internet has grown enormously quickly and has had a
dramatic effect on large portions of the world society and
economy.
- Knowledge of communications networks has become an important job
skill for computer scientists.
- 1.2 Complexity in Network Systems
- There are a lot of different kinds of network technologies and a
lot of different ways to connect networks together.
- There really is no unified model of how networks are supposed to
be designed.
- There's no true agreement on terminology
- 1.3 Mastering the Complexity
- To make sense of it all, you have to try to look at the big
picture -- to get an idea of what the major concepts are.
- 1.4 Concepts and Terminology
- The text aims to take the approach of explaining the major
concepts.
- 1.5 Organization of the Text
- chapters on data transmission
- chapters on packet transmission
- chapters on internetworking
- chapters on networking applications
- 1.6 Summary