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TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview

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The TCP/IP protocol suite has become the de facto standard for computer communications in today's networked world. The ubiquitous implementation of a specific networking standard has led to an incredible dependence on the applications enabled by it. Today, we use the TCP/IP protocols and the Internet not only for entertainment and information, but to conduct our business by performing transactions, buying and selling products, and delivering services to customers. We are continually extending the set of applications that leverage TCP/IP, thereby driving the need for further infrastructural support.In TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, we take an in-depth look into the TCP/IP protocol suite. In Part I, we introduce TCP/IP, providing a basic understanding of the underlying concepts essential to the protocols. We continue our discussion in Part II with a survey of today's most popular TCP/IP application protocols, including emerging wireless and multimedia applications. Finally, in Part III, we cover advanced concepts and the latest infrastructural trends in networking, including IPv6, security, Quality of Service, IP mobility, and MPLS. We address the challenges that TCP/IP is currently facing and the technology being developed to overcome them.
Table of Contents
Part I. Core TCP/IP protocols
Chapter 1. Architecture, history, standards, and trends
Chapter 2. Network interfaces
Chapter 3. Internetworking protocols
Chapter 4. Routing protocols
Chapter 5. Transport layer protocols
Chapter 6. IP multicast
Part 2. TCP/IP application protocols
Chapter 7. Application structure and programming interfaces
Chapter 8. Directory and naming protocols
Chapter 9. Remote execution and distributed computing
Chapter 10. File related protocols
Chapter 11. Mail applications
Chapter 12. The World Wide Web
Chapter 13. Multimedia protocols
Chapter 14. Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Chapter 15. Network management
Chapter 16. Utilities
Part 3. Advanced concepts and new technologies
Chapter 17. IP Version 6
Chapter 18. Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Chapter 19. Mobile IP
Chapter 20. Integrating other protocols with TCP/IP
Chapter 21. TCP/IP security
Chapter 22. Quality of Service
Chapter 23. Availability, scalability, and load balancing
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