Includes bibliographical references and index.

The medium access control sublayer. The channel allocation problem : Static channel allocation ; Assumptions for dynamic channel allocation -- Multiple access protocols : ALOHA ; Carrier sense multiple access protocols ; Collision-free protocols ; Limited-contention protocols ; Wireless LAN protocols -- Ethernet : Classic ethernet physical layer ; Classic ethernet MAC sublayer protocol ; Ethernet performance ; Switched ethernet ; Fast ethernet ; Gigabit ethernet ; 10-gigabit ethernet ; Retrospective on ethernet -- Wireless LANs : The 802.11 architecture and protocol stack ; The 802.11 physical layer ; The 802.11 MAC sublayer protocol ; The 802.11 frame structure ; Services -- Broadband wireless : Comparison of 802.16 with 802.11 and 3G ; The 802.16 architecture and protocol stack ; The 802.16 physical layer ; The 802.16 MAC sublayer protocol ; The 802.16 frame structure -- Bluetooth : Bluetooth architecture ; Bluetooth applications ; The bluetooth protocol stack ; The bluetooth radio layer ; The bluetooth link layers ; The bluetooth frame structure -- RFID : EPC gen 2 architecture ; EPC gen 2 physical layer ; EPC gen 2 tag identification layer ; Tag identification message formats -- Data link layer switching : Uses of bridges ; Learning bridges ; Spanning tree bridges ; Repeaters, hubs, bridges, switches, routers, and gateways ; Virtual LANs -- 5. The network layer. Network layer design issues : Store-and-forward packet switching ; Services provided to the transport layer ; Implementation of connectionless service ; Implementation of connection-oriented service ; Comparison of virtual-circuit and datagram networks -- Routing algorithms : The optimality principle ; Shortest path algorithm ; Flooding ; Distance vector routing ; Link state routing ; Hierarchical routing ; Broadcast routing ; Multicast routing ; Anycast routing ; Routing for mobile hosts ; Routing in ad hoc networks -- Congestion control algorithms : Approaches to congestion control : Traffic-aware routing ; Admission control ; Traffic throttling ; Load shedding -- Quality of service : Application requirements ; Traffic shaping ; Packet scheduling ; Admission control ; Integrated services ; Differentiated services -- Internetworking : How networks differ ; How networks can be connected ; Tunneling ; Internetwork routing ; Packet fragmentation -- The network layer in the internet : The IP version 4 protocol ; IP addresses ; IP version ; Internet control protocols ; Label switching and MPLS ; OSPF, an interior gateway routing protocol ; BGP, the exterior gateway routing protocol ; Internet multicasting ; Mobile IP -- 6. The transport layer. The transport service : Services provided to the upper layers ; Transport service primitives ; Berkeley sockets ; An example of socket programming: an internet file server -- Elements of transport protocols : Addressing ; Connection establishment ; Connection release ; Error control and flow control ; Multiplexing ; Crash recovery -- Congestion control : Desirable bandwidth allocation ; Regulating the sending rate ; Wireless issues -- The internet transport protocols: UDP : Introduction to UDP ; Remote procedure call ; Real-time transport protocols ; The internet transport protocols: TCP : Introduction to TCP ; The TCP service model ; The TCP protocol ; The TCP segment header ; TCP connection establishment ; TCP connection release ; TCP connection management modeling ; TCP sliding window ; TCP timer management ; TCP congestion control : The future of TCP -- Performance issues : Performance problems in computer networks ; Network performance measurement ; Host design for fast networks ; Fast segment processing ; Header compression ; Protocols for long fat networks -- Delay-tolerant networking : DTN architecture ; The bundle protocol --