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Computer Networks, 5th Edition
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Computer Networks, 5th Edition

by Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie
March 2011
Beginner
920 pages
27h 46m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
Content preview from Computer Networks, 5th Edition
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Backbone networks
330
Backdoor software
685
Backend servers, CDNs
783
Bandwidth
see also Throughput
definition
804
fair queuing
496 , 498–499
latency relationship
52
network performance
44–48
QoS
530
resource allocation
491
RTCP
458
RTP
451
TCP issues
413–414
TCP slow start
505–506 , 509–510
wireless technologies
130
Banyan network
definition
274
packet routing
276
Base data types
583
Baseline wander, encoding
79
Base station
access points
139
cellular technology
145–146
satellite phones
148
wireless
132–134
wireless variants
136
Basic Encoding Rules
Batcher network
276
Baud rate, encoding
81
Beacon frame
141
Bellman-Ford algorithm
243 , 805
BER (Basic Encoding Rules) ...
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ISBN: 9780123850591