Data Networks [Hardcover]

Dimitri P. Bertsekas (Author), Robert G. Gallagher (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0131968254 | ISBN-13: 978-0131968257 | Publication Date: December 1, 1986

Based on an extremely popular short course conducted by the authors for several Fortune 500 companies, this volume is designed to help professionals develop a deeper understanding of data networks and evolving integrated networks, and to explore today's various analysis and design tools. KEY TOPICS: It begins with an overview of the principles behind data networks, then develops an understanding of the modeling issues and mathematical analysis needed to compare the effectiveness of different networks. An ideal reference for Communication, Network, and Research and Development Engineers.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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An exploration of data networks, evolving integrated networks, and the various analysis and design tools. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Based on an extremely popular short course conducted by the authors for several Fortune 500 companies, this volume is designed to help professionals develop a deeper understanding of data networks and evolving integrated networks, and to explore today's various analysis and design tools. It begins with an overview of the principles behind data networks, then develops an understanding of the modeling issues and mathematical analysis needed to compare the effectiveness of different networks. An ideal reference for Communication, Network, and Research and Development Engineers. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 576 pages
• Publisher: Longman Higher Education (December 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131968254
• ISBN-13: 978-0131968257
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars never out-of-date, January 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Data Networks (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

Written by two MIT masters, this is the best tech. book I have read, ever. I first read it slowly yet seriously in my first graduate year; now four years later, after obtaining my PhD in networking, I still discover new ideas or technical points (or some I just overlooked) out of the book, from time to time.

Look back, I am amazed how precisely they commented on ATM when it was that hot. Also, as a 1992 book, it is amazing that the book was so up-to-date as the Parekh/Gallager results on WFQ were seriously discussed in Ch. 6, even before the results were formally published and eventually won IEEE paper awards. Today WFQ is one of the most well-known, if not the most well-known, algorithms in networking...

For strict yet accessible treatment on flow control and routing, you can find no book elsewhere that can both illustrate the existing ideas and trigger/stimulate your own ideas...

Well, I dare to say I did not find any single sentence in the book that I felt redundant/vague. Probably the only network book better than this one would be its 3rd edition, which unfortunately we do not know if/when will come out.

Warning: if you don't like/appreciate rigorous math thinking, probably you can safely skip this book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I bought this at 2002., April 23, 2008

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kaizen (Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Data Networks (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

I bought this book at 2002, 10 years after the publishing.
I read as text book of networkin protocol.
Especially, slotted multiaccess and aloha system.
My PhD paper was based on delay models in data networsk such as section 3.
Thanks.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is excellent for a solid background in network theory, April 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Data Networks (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

I read this book during my graduate course in EE ten years ago. It requires good background in mathematics (maybe a little more than a freshman calculus), but as a result you learn the topic with a solid fundemental, and good mathematical modelling. For anybody who deals with communication networks (in theory or practically) this book should be on his/her shelf.