An Introduction to Computer Networks

Department of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago, 2015. — 691 p.Book is a free and open general-purpose computer-networking textbook, complete with diagrams and exercises. It covers the LAN, internetworking and transport layers, focusing primarily on TCP/IP. Particular attention is paid to congestion; other special topics include queuing, real-time traffic, network management, security and the ns simulator.
Topics included:
- An Overview of Networks
- Ethernet
- Other LANs
- Links
- Packets
- Abstract Sliding Windows
- IP version 4
- IP version 6
- Routing-Update Algorithms
- Large-Scale IP Routing
- UDP Transport
- TCP Transport
- TCP Reno and Congestion Management
- Dynamics of TCP Reno
- Newer TCP Implementations
- Network Simulations: ns-2
- The ns-3 Network Simulator
- Queuing and Scheduling
- Quality of Service
- Network Management and SNMP
- Security