| Field | Information | |----------------|-------------| | Title | Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach | | Edition | 8th Edition | | Authors | James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross | | Publisher | Pearson | | ISBN | 978-0135928608 | | Chapters | 1 – 9 (plus Appendix) |
For the programming assignments (like building a multi-threaded web server or a ping client), GitHub is full of student implementations.
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├── Chapter_1/ # Computer Networks and the Internet
├── Chapter_2/ # Application Layer
├── Chapter_3/ # Transport Layer
├── Chapter_4/ # Network Layer: Data Plane
├── Chapter_5/ # Network Layer: Control Plane
├── Chapter_6/ # Link Layer and LANs
├── Chapter_7/ # Wireless and Mobile Networks
├── Chapter_8/ # Security in Computer Networks
├── Chapter_9/ # Multimedia Networking (if covered)
├── Appendix/ # Wireshark labs & supplementary problems
└── README.md # This file
Each chapter folder contains:
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