This book is designed and developed assuming little or no technical background on part of the reader. The book therefore first introduces the philosophy of data communications covering signal propagation and information encoding. It then proceeds to covering signal propagation and information encoding.
It then proceeds to cover various technologies, OSI model, protocols, network architectures, internetworking concepts and TCP/IP. All this makes the book ideally suited for the first course on Data Communications and Networks.
1. Introduction to Data Communications and Networking
2. Information Encoding
3. Analog and Digital Transmission Methods
4. Mode of Data Transmission and Multiplexing
5. Transmission Errors: Detection and Correction
6. Data Compression and Encryption
7. Transmission Media
8. Network Topologies, Switching and Routing Algorithms
9. Networking Protocols and OSI Model
10. Local Area Networks (LAN), Metropolitan Area Networks
(MAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN)
Etc.