Computer Network By B.B.Agarwal & S.P.Tayal

The book is primarily intended to serve as a textbook in accordance with the syllabus of computer networks offered by various universities in India.

The book titled 'Computer Network' covers complete syllabus of Computer Network prescribed by U. P. Technical University, Lucknow and other universities. This book is extremely well organized and lucidly written with an approach to explain the concepts in communicable language. 

This book attempts to provide a unified overview of the broad field of data and computer communications. The organizations of the book reflects an attempt to break this massive subject into comprehensible parts and to build, piece by piece, a survey of the state of the art. The book emphasizes the basic principles and topics of the fundamental importance concerning the technology and architecture of this field, and provides a detailed discussion of leading edge topics.

The book highlights the basic principles, and contrasts their application in the specific areas of technology. It contains a number of examples, various diagrams and exercises, which enhance its suitability for classroom instructions.

For B.Tech., M.Tech., BCA, MCA, B.Sc. (Comp. Science) and IT Professionals.This is useful for the beginners of computer architecture designers.The text is designed to make it particularly easy for students of B.Tech., M.Tech., MCA, BCA, to understand data communications and networking.

The main features of the book are as follows:

• It focuses on conceptual clarity
• Precise and clear exposition of the text
• Assignments and exercises at the end of chapters allow the student to test understanding of the material
• The inner strength of this book like in threadbare discussion of several questions selected from various examination papers
• It also covers the question papers of previous year
• This book will be a boon to students and will help them to face examination in confident manner

1. Network Concepts

2. Network Architecture

3. Data Communication Concept

4. Framing and Error Control

5. Data Link Control

6. Medium Access Control and LAN

7. Collision Free Protocols 8. Routing

9. Congestion Control

10. TCP/IP

11. Application Layer