TEE 5224 High Speed Networks

Chapter I Data Communications..................................................................................

1. 1 Introduction.........................................................................................................
1.1.1 Parallel Transmission................................................................................
1.1.2 Serial Transmission....................................................................................
1.1.3 Start-Stop or Synchronous Transmission................................................
1.2 Remote Serial Transmission........................................................................
1.2.1 The physical connection.............................................................................
1.2.2 Programmer's View of the Serial Port.....................................................
1.2.3 The 8259A Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC)..........................
1.2.4 Programming the 8259A...........................................................................
1.2.4.1 Using MSDOS Tools to Program the Serial Port...................................
1.2.4.2 Using the BIOS for Serial Communications..........................................
Chapter 2 Data Communication Standards..................................................................
2.1 CCITT (ITU-TC) Recommendations Relating To Data Communications..........
2.1.1 V Series Recommendations, Developed by CCITT SGXVII....................
2.1.2 X Series Recommendations, Developed by CCITT SGVII......................
2.2 Error Detection and Control.................................................................................
2.2.1 Hamming codes.............................................................................................
2.2.2 Redundancy Check Codes...........................................................................
2.2.2.1 Parity Check............................................................................................
2.2.2.2 Block check Sequence............................................................................
2.2.2.3 Cyclic Redundancy Check codes (CRC)................................................
Chapter 3 Reference Models and Layered Protocols...................................................
3.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................
3.2 The Generic Model..............................................................................................
3.3 The Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model (OSI)..............................
3.3.1 Inter-Connection of Sub-Networks.............................................................
3.4 The TCP/IP Reference Model..............................................................................
3.4.1 The TCP/IP Protocols.....................................................................................
3.4. 1.1 The IP protocol (version 4)....................................................................
3.4.1.2 IP Version 6............................................................................................
3.4.2 The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)................................................
3.5 ADSL Technology as A Solution for High Speed Internet Access.....................
3.6 Wide Area Network (WAN) Protocols................................................................
3.6.1 High-level Data Link Control (HDLC) Protocol.......................................
3.6.2 X25 Protocol Specification...........................................................................
Chapter 4 High Speed Local Area Networks.................................................................
4.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................
4.1.1 Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN).........................................................
4.2 Network Topology.............................................................................................
4.2.1 Bus Topology.................................................................................................
4.2. 1.1 Implementation of a Bus Network...........................................................
4.2.2 Ring Topology...............................................................................................
 4.2.3 Star Topology................................................................................................
4.2.4 Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)...................................................
4.3 LAN Protocols.....................................................................................................
4.3.1 IEEE 802 LAN Standard Protocols............................................................
4.3. 1.1 IEE 802.3 (Ethernet) CSMA/CD.............................................................
4.3.1.2 IEEE 802.4 (Token Bus)...........................................................................
4.3.1.3 IEEE 802.5 Token Ring............................................................................
4.4 High Speed LANs..................................................................................................
4.4.1 FDDI...................................................................................................................
4.4.2 Fast Ethernet.................................................................................................
Chapter 5 High Speed Communication Links................................................................
5.1 Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN).........................................................
5.1.1 Basic Service..................................................................................................
5.1.2 Primary Service.................................................................................................
5.2 Broadband ISDN..................................................................................................
5.3 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).................................................................
5.3.1 ATM Cell Format...........................................................................................
5.3.2 Cell Relay....................................................................................................
Chapter 6 Performance Evaluation of Communication Networks.......................................
6.1 Mathematical Analysis.........................................................................................
6.1.1 First Principles...........................................................................................
6,2 THE ELEMENTS OF QUEUES.........................................................................
6.2.1 The Arrival Process...................................................................................
6.2. 1.1 Random Arrivals......................................................................................
6.2.1.2 Batch Arrivals and Burstiness................................................................
6.2.2 The Service Mechanism.............................................................................
6.2.3 Little's Result (formula)............................................................................
6.3 Birth-Death Processes.......................................................................................
6.3.1 The Transient Solution..............................................................................
6.3.2 The Steady-State Solution.........................................................................
6.4 Elementary Queuing Theory.............................................................................
6.4.1 The M/M/1 Queue.......................................................................................
6.4.2 The M/ M/m/ k Queue................................................................................
6.4.3 Finite Population M/ M/ M/ k/ s................................................................
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