CSD008/COMP3616 (Networks and Internet Systems): Reading List
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Readings from "Computer Networks", 4th Edition, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum,
 Prentice Hall PTR, 2003. (A copy is on reserve in the UCD Main Library)

NOTE: these readings are supplementary to material covered in lectures.


Introduction: 
Ch. 1, sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.1, 1.3.5, & 1.4


Network Basics: 
Ch. 1, sections 1.3.2 & 1.3.3
Ch. 2, section 2.5.5
Ch. 5, sections 5.1.1, 5.1.3, 5.1.4, & 5.1.5


Datalink Layer, part 1: 
Ch. 3, sections 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, & 3.2.1


Datalink Layer, part 2: 
Ch. 3, sections 3.6.1 & 3.6.2
(you may find some useful discussion of the various ARQ schemes
 in sections 3.3 and 3.4, but you can IGNORE all of Tanenbaum's
 discussion of Protocols 1-6 and associated programming issues)


Datalink Layer, part 3: 
Ch. 4, sections 4.2.2 & 4.3 (SKIP Manchester Encoding subsection)


Internetworking Devices: 
Ch. 5, p. 418-419 & sections 5.5.1 & 5.5.2, & Ch. 4, section 4.7.5
Ch. 4, section 4.7 (p. 317-326 only)


Network Layer: Routing: 
Ch. 5, section 5.2 (p. 350-355 & 357-366 only; IGNORE Fig. 5-8)


Internet Topics: 
Ch. 5, section 5.6 (p. 431-454 only)
Ch. 6, sections 6.4.1, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.5.4, 6.5.8, & 6.5.9


Multimedia Networking, The World Wide Web, Mobile/Wireless
 Internet: only what is in the Lecture Notes (although you
 can find material in Tanenbaum on these topics if you want)