Jean Walrand - Communication Networks

Communication Networks

A Concise Introduction

Second Edition

Praise for Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction

This book is a welcome addition to the Networking literature. It presents a comprehensive set of topics from an innovative and modern viewpoint that observes the rapid development that the field has undergone. It is informed, informative, and useful to students, faculty, and practitioners in the field. This book is a must have!

-Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland

Computer networks are extremely complex systems, and university-level textbooks often contain lengthy descriptions of them that sacrifice basic conceptual understanding in favor of detailed operational explanations. Walrand and Parekh depart from this approach, offering a concise and refreshing treatment that focuses on the fundamental principles that students can (and should) carry forward in their careers. The new edition has been updated to cover the latest developments and is of great value for teaching a first upper-division course on computer networks.

-Massimo Franceschetti, University of California, San Diego

The book presents the most important principles of communication network design, with emphasis on the Internet, in a crisp and clear fashion. Coverage extends from physical layer issues through the key distributed applications. The book will be a valuable resource to students, instructors, and practitioners for years to come.

-Bruce Hajek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Conceptual clarity, simplicity of explanation, and brevity are the soul of this book. It covers a very broad swathe of contemporary topics, distills complex systems into their absolutely basic constituent ideas, and explains each idea clearly and succinctly. It is a role model of what a classroom text should be. I wish there had been such a book when I was learning about communication networks.

-P. R. Kumar, Texas A&M University

This book focuses on the basic principles that underlie the design and operation of the Internet. It provides a holistic account of this critical yet complex infrastructure and explains the essential ideas clearly and precisely without being obscured by unessential implementation or analytical details. It is the best introduction to networking from which more specialized treatment of various topics can be pursued.

-Steven Low, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction by Jean Walrand and Shyam Parekh is an amazing book. Jean and Shyam are in the unique position for writing this book because of the foundational contributions they made to the area and their many years of teaching this course at UC Berkeley. This book covers many important topics ranging from the architecture of the Internet, to todays wireless technologies, and to emerging topics such as SDN and IoT. For each topic, the book focuses on the key principles and core concepts, and presents a concise discussion of how these principles are essential to scalable and robust communication networks. Mathematical tools such as Markov chains and graph theory are introduced at a level that is easily understandable but also adequate for modeling and analyzing the key components of communication networks. The comprehensive coverage of core concepts of communication networks and the intuition/principle-driven approach make this book the best textbook for an introductory course in communication networks for those students who are interested in pursuing research in this field. It is certainly a must-have book for students and researchers in the field.

-Lei Ying, Arizona State University

Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks

Editor

R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Founding Editor Emeritus

Jean Walrand, University of California, Berkeley

Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks is an ongoing series of 50- to 100-page publications on topics on the design, implementation, and management of communication networks. Each lecture is a self-contained presentation of one topic by a leading expert. The topics range from algorithms to hardware implementations and cover a broad spectrum of issues from security to multiple-access protocols. The series addresses technologies from sensor networks to reconfigurable optical networks.

The series is designed to:

Provide the best available presentations of important aspects of communication networks.

Help engineers and advanced students keep up with recent developments in a rapidly evolving technology.

Facilitate the development of courses in this field

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Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction, Second Edition

Jean Walrand and Shyam Parekh

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ISBN: 9781627058872paperback

ISBN: 9781627058995ebook

ISBN: 9781681732060epub

ISBN: 9781681736150hardcover

DOI 10.2200/S00804ED2V01Y201709CNT020

A Publication in the Morgan & Claypool Publishers series

SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Lecture #20

Series Editor: R. Srikant,