Networking Fundamentals Wide, Local and Personal Area Communications

by Pahlavan, Kaveh; Krishnamurthy, Prashant

• ISBN13: 9780470992890
• ISBN10: 0470992891
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-22
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Focusing on the physical layer, Networking Fundamentals provides essential information on networking technologies that are used in both wired and wireless networks designed for local area networks (LANs) and wide-area networks (WANs). The book starts with an overview of telecommunications followed by four parts, each including several chapters. Part I explains the principles of design and analysis of information networks at the lowest layers. It concentrates on the characteristics of the transmission media, applied transmission and coding, and medium access control. Parts II and III are devoted to detailed descriptions of important WANs and LANs respectively with Part II describing the wired Ethernet and Internet as well as cellular networks while Part III covers popular wired LANs and wireless LANs (WLANs), as well as wireless personal area network (WPAN) technologies. Part IV concludes by examining security, localization and sensor networking. The partitioned structure of the book allows flexibility in teaching the material, encouraging the reader to grasp the more simple concepts and to build on these foundations when moving onto more complex information.Networking Fundamentals contains numerous illustrations, case studies and tables to supplement the text, as well as exercises with solutions at the end of each chapter. There is also a companion website with password protected solutions manual for instructors along with other useful resources. Provides a unique holistic approach covering wireless communication technologies, wired technologies and networking One of the first textbooks to integrate all aspects of information networks while placing an emphasis on the physical layer and systems engineering aspects Contains numerous illustrations, case studies and tables to supplement the text, as well as exercises with solutions at the end of each chapter Companion website with password protected solutions manual and other useful resources

Author Biography

Kaveh Pahlavan, is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), a Professor of Computer Science (CS), and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA. He is also a visiting Professor of Telecommunication Laboratory and CWC, University of Oulu, Finland. His area of research is location-aware broadband wireless indoor networks. He has contributed to numerous seminal technical publications and patents in this field. He is the principal author of the Wireless Information Networks (with Allen Levesque), John Wiley and Sons, 1995 and Principles of Wireless Networks -- A Unified Approach (with P. Krishnamurthy), Prentice Hall, 2002. He has been a consultant to a number of companies, including CNR Inc., GTE Laboratories, Steinbrecher Corp., Simplex, Mercury Computers, WINDATA, SieraComm, 3COM, and Codex/Motorola in Massachusetts; JPL, Savi Technologies, RadioLAN in California; Aironet in Ohio; United Technology Research Center in Connecticut; Honeywell in Arizona; Nokia, LK-Products, Elektrobit, TEKES, the Finnish Academy in Finland; and NTT in Japan. Before joining WPI, he was the director of advanced development at Infinite Inc., Andover, MA, working on data communications. He started his career as an assistant professor at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Wireless Information Networks. He was the founder, the program chairman, and organizer of the IEEE Wireless LAN Workshop, Worcester, in 1991 and 1996 and the organizer and technical program chairman of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, Boston, MA, 1992 and 1998. He has also been selected as a member of the Committee on Evolution of Untethered Communication, US National Research Council, 1997 and has led the US review team for the Finnish R&D Programs in Electronic and Telecommunication in 1999 and NETs project in 2003. For his contributions to the wireless networks he was the Westin Hadden Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI during 1993--1996, was elected as a fellow of the IEEE in 1996 and became a fellow of Nokia in 1999. From May to December of 2000 he was the first Fulbright--Nokia scholar at the University of Oulu, Finland. Because of his inspiring visionary publications and his international conference activities for the growth of the wireless LAN industry, he is referred to as one of the founding fathers of the wireless LAN industry. In the past few years his research work has been the core for more than 25 patents by Skyhook Wireless, where he acts as the chief technical advisor. In January 2008 Steve Jobs announced that Skyhook Wireless’s WiFi localization technology is used in iPhone. Details of his contributions to this field are available at www.cwins.wpi.edu.

Prashant Krishnamurthy is an associate professor with the graduate program in Telecommunications and Networking at the University of Pittsburgh. At Pitt, he regularly teaches courses on cryptography, network security, and wireless communications and networks. His research interests are wireless network security, wireless data networks, and position location in indoor wireless networks. He is the coauthor of the books Principles of Wireless Networks -- A Unified Approach and Physical Layer of Communication Systems and is a co-editor of Information Assurance: Dependability and Security in Networked Systems. He served as the chair of the IEEE Communications Society Pittsburgh Chapter from 2000 to 2005. He obtained his PhD from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, in 1999.

Table of Contents

Part 1

Introduction to Information Networks

Introduction

Evolution of WANs

Evolution of Local Networks

Structure of the book

Characteristics of the Medium

Introduction

Guided Media

Wireless Media

Fundamentals of Physical Layer Transmission

Information Transmission

Transmission Techniques and Signal Constellation

Performance of the Physical Layer

Wideband Modems

Coding and Reliable Packet Transmission

Introduction

Source Coding and Framing Techniques

FEC Coding

Coding for Spread-Spectrum and CDMA Systems

Arq schemes

Flow Control Protocols

Medium Access Methods

Introduction

Centralized Assigned access Schemes

Distributed Random Access for Data-Oriented Networks

Integration of voice and data traffic

Part 3

The Internet

Infrastructure of the Internet

Addressing

QoS

Bridges or LAN Switches

Switches

Routers

Cellular Networks

Introduction: What Is a Cellular Network?

General Architecture of a Cellular Network

Mechanisms to Support a Mobile Environment

Protocol Stack in Cellular Networks

PHY in TDMA Air Interface

PHY in CDMA Air Interface

Achieving Higher Data Rates in Cellular Networks

Deployment of Cellular Networks

Ethernet

Introduction

Legacy 10 Mb/s Ethernet

Evolution of the PHY

Emergence of Additional Features for Ethernet

IEEE WLAN Standards

Introduction

IEEE 802.11 and WLANs

IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX

IEEE 802.15 WPAN

Introduction

IEEE 802.15.1 Bluetooth

Interference between Bluetooth and 802.11

IEEE 802.15.3a UWB WPANs

IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee

Part 4

Network Security

Introduction

Network Attacks and Security Issues

Protection and Prevention

Detection

Assessment and Response

RF Location Sensing and Geolocation Systems

Introduction

What is Wireless Geolocation?

RF Location Sensing and Positioning Methodologies

LCS Architecture for Cellular Systems

Positioning in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks

Introduction

Sensor Network Applications

Sensor Network Architecture and Sensor Devices

The PHY Layer in Sensor Networks

The MAC Layer in Sensor Networks

Higher Layer Issues in Sensor Networks

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