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1. Communication Networks and Services
1.1 Evolution of Network Architecture and Services
1.2 Future Network Architectures and Their Services
1.3 Key Factors in Communication Network Evolution

2. Applications and Layered Architectures
2.1 Examples of Protocols, Services, and Layering
2.2 The OSI Reference Model
2.3 Overview of TCP/IP Architecture
2.4 • The Berkeley API
2.5 • Application Layer Protocols and TCP/IP Utilities

3. Digital Transmission Fundamentals
3.1 Digital Representation of Information
3.2 Why Digital Communications?
3.3 Digital Representation of Analog Signals
3.4 Characterization of Communication Channels
3.5 Fundamental Limits in Digital Transmission
3.6 Line Coding
3.7 Modems and Digital Modulation
3.8 Properties of Media and Digital Transmission Systems
3.9 Error Detection and Correction
Appendix 3A: Asynchronous Data Transmission
Appendix 3B: Fourier Series
Appendix 3C: Sampling Theorem

4. Circuit-Switching Networks
4.1 Multiplexing
4.2 SONET
4.3 Transport Networks
4.4 Circuit Switches
4.5 The Telephone Network
4.6 Signaling
4.7 • Traffic and Overload Controls in Telephone Networks
4.8 Cellular Telephone Networks

5. Peer-to-Peer Protocols and Data Link Layer
Part I: Peer-to-Peer Protocols
5.1 Peer-to-Peer Protocols and Service Models
5.2 ARQ Protocols and Reliable Data Transfer Service
5.3 Other Peer-to-Peer Protocols
Part II: Data Link Controls
5.4 Framing
5.5 Point-to-Point Protocol
5.6 HDLC Data Link Control
5.7 • Link Sharing Using Packet Multiplexers
Appendix 5A: Derivation of Efficiency of ARQ Protocols

6. Medium Access Control Protocols and Local Area Networks
Part I: Medium Access Control Protocols
6.1 Multiple Access Communications
6.2 Random Access
6.3 Scheduling Approaches to Medium Access Control
6.4 • Channelization
6.5 • Delay Performance of MAC and Channelization Schemes
Part II: Local Area Networks
6.6 LAN Protocols
6.7 Ethernet and IEEE 802.3 LAN Standard
6.8 Token-Ring and IEEE 802.5 LAN Standard
6.9 FDDI
6.10 Wireless LANs and IEEE 802.11 Standard
6.11 LAN Bridges

7. Packet-Switching Networks
7.1 Network Services and Internal Network Operation
7.2 Packet Network Topology
7.3 Datagrams and Virtual Circuits
7.4 Routing in Packet Networks
7.5 Shortest-Path Routing
7.6 ATM Networks
7.7 Traffic Management at the Packet Level
7.8 Traffic Management at the Flow Level
7.9 Traffic Management at the Flow-Aggregate Level

8. TCP/IP
8.1 The TCP/IP Architecture
8.2 The Internet Protocol
8.3 IPv6
8.4 User Datagram Protocol
8.5 Transmission Control Protocol
8.6 Internet Routing Protocols
8.7 Multicast Routing
8.8 DHCP, NAT, and Mobile IP

9. ATM Networks
9.1 Why ATM?
9.2 BISDN Reference Model
9.3 ATM Layer
9.4 ATM Adaptation Layer
9.5 ATM Signaling
9.6 PNNI Routing

10. Advanced Network Architectures
10.1 Integrated Services in the Internet
10.2 RSVP
10.3 Differentiated Services
10.4 Network Interconnection Models
10.5 MPLS
10.6 Real-Time Transport Protocol
10.7 Session Control Protocols

11. Security Protocols
11.1 Security and Cryptographic Algorithms
11.2 Security Protocols
11.3 Cryptographic Algorithms

12. Multimedia Information
12.1 Lossless Data Compression
12.2 Compression of Analog Signals
12.3 Image and Video Coding

Appendix A. Delay and Loss Performance
A.1 Delay Analysis and Little's Formula
A.2 Basic Queueing Models
A.3 M/M/1: A Basic Multiplexer Model
A.4 The M/G/1 model
A.5 Erlang B Formula: M/M/c/c system

Appendix B. Network Management
B.1 Network Management Overview
B.2 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
B.3 Structure of Management Information
B.4 Management Information Base
B.5 Remote Network Monitoring

A • indicates that the section is optional.