Computer Networking A Top Down Approach

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Unique among computer networking texts, the Seventh Edition of the popular Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach builds on the author’s long tradition of teaching this complex subject through a layered approach in a “top-down manner.” The text works its way from the application layer down toward the physical layer, motivating readers by exposing them to important concepts early in their study of networking. Unique among computer networking texts, the Seventh Edition of the popular Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach builds on the author’s long tradition of teaching this complex subject through a layered approach in a “top-down manner.”. Layer—is not the best approach for a modern course on computer networking. A Top-Down Approach Our book broke new ground 12 years ago by treating networking in a top-down manner—that is, by beginning at the application layer and working its way down toward the physical layer. The feedback we received from teachers and students. Edition of Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by Jim Kurose and Keith Ross. These solutions are being made available to instructors ONLY. Please do NOT copy or distribute this document to others (even other instructors). Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 6/e. Student Resources: Quizzes, applets, and more. Instructor Resources: Instructor materials are available on our Instructor Resource Center. Separate registration is required. Buy This Book: If you do not own the book yet, you can visit our catalog page to make an online purchase. The top-down approach is here the key to the book’s success, and the main reason you should read it. It begins with what we see of networks to introduce more abstract concepts, keeping only the useful parts of them. A must read to understand networks in general from the ground down.

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Building on the successful top-down approach of previous editions, the Fourth Edition of Computer Networking continues with an early emphasis on application-layer paradigms and application programming interfaces, encouraging a hands-on experience with protocols and networking concepts. With this edition, Kurose and Ross bring the issues of network security to the forefron..more

Published March 23rd 2007 by Addison Wesley (first published November 2000)

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Jul 17, 2014Anton Petrov rated it it was amazing

Shelves: tech, next, interested, in-english

It's an amazing book about Computer Networking. Gave me a great in-depth intuition of how the Internet works and all such networks in general.
The approach from the Application layer downwards was just the right one for me. I had tried to learn computer networks before - starting from the lowest layer - and didn't get very far. I was lost and bored by all the details. The cherry of the cake was not coming any time soon. Starting from the cherry (this book's approach) really spiced my appetite fo..more

Apr 29, 2013Zvezdi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Nice and understandable. Makes you excited about the Internet. I enjoy reading the interviews featured in every chapter (like the one with Marc Andreessen included in the sixth edition).

Jun 21, 2014YouKneeK rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This textbook was required reading for a Computer Networking course. As far as college textbooks go, it was pretty good. I learned the material from it that I needed to learn. The textbook was well-organized, and it was easy to understand. It had quite a few analogies and real-world examples that aided in understanding.
For me, this textbook was a pretty dry read and I sometimes had trouble pushing through the weekly reading assignments. However, networks are not an aspect of Computer Science th..more

Apr 12, 2019Laurence rated it liked it

The security parts are not entirely correct according to a security expert friend. Otherwise good enough to get a feel of how computer networking works. The contents could use a good reorganisation though.

(Re 7th edition)
The authors successfully make the deep details of networking understandable and even easy to read.
Love the “a day in the life of a webpage request”, which listed the 24 exact detailed steps that a packet takes between an ethernet card, a Web server and it’s returned. (p501-505)
Chapter 8 on security leaves a lot to be desired… It’s really about how security is designed to ideally function, but omits all the real world problems. Similarly the last chapters on mobile and multimedia..more

Read some chapters from this book for my networking course. The writers explained the nuts and bolts of networking in such interesting way, I felt like I was reading a story! Thanks to them for explaining the hard topics so easily that we, students clung to the textbook.

Apr 09, 2014Daniel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is one of the best technical books I've read. It explains concepts in a very clear manner and it often uses analogies which help to enforce the material (i.e. making connection to things you already know will help in retaining the material). The approach it takes, as per title, is a top down approach which I find to prefer over a bottom-up one. It starts with an overview of networking then proceeds from the 'Application Layer', adding more and more details as the chapters progress. This boo..more

Aug 23, 2007Roberto! rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: sludge-factory

A better one would have been the bottom up approach. In the beginning of the book it starts to explain the concept of routing and the interconnection of the networks. If a reader has no prior knowledge about networks then he will be scratching his head. In my case i did not even know the actual difference between the router and the switch, where does routing actually takes place, on which layer, which addressing is used. The book directly jumps into the application layer without even giving the..more

This was a good book, I learned a lot from it. I think Chapters 3 and 4 and 5 were the gems; Chapter 3 covered transport-layer protocols and TCP specifically in pretty good depth, Chapters 4 and 5 covered the networking layer split into a chapter on the Data Plane (Ch. 4) and the Control Plane (Ch. 5).
I felt disappointed in Chapter 8, I wish it had much more depth than it did.
Overall, I recommend this book for a good introductory and broad education in computer networking. It's also useful suppl..more

Wow, it was very long reading. It took me about a year to read it.
There are a lot of information about the network today and it is very
difficult to grab all main ideas from the various domains.
I would say that I like first 5 chapters. They cover all important details
from the application layer till the Ethernet frames. After 5 fundamental
chapters authors offer us more domain-specific information. These chapters are
very basic and require a lot of additional reading.
As a result if your goal is to g..more

Aug 24, 2018Nikolas Mavrogeneiadis rated it really liked it

Interesting book which contains much information about networking. I think that some chapters should have more explanation but it's not a big problem. This book has a website which has 2D examples(like flow control) and these helped me to understand some significant things better. Also the exercises are very good.

best available and a very usefull course in computer engineering ! ive read the 2013 edition which i didnt find here ! any how , fluent and easy to understand , i haven't given many 5 stars but this sure deserves it

Great for learning computer network infrastructure

Jul 26, 2019Alex Wood added it · review of another edition

Can any one book every cover the whole of networking? Well this does a good job, although long out of date now.

Excellent textbook for CIS students who want to get into the details of networking in a Masters Degree program.

May 02, 2019Tobias Ørstad rated it really liked it

Good analogies that makes a lot of technical topics easier to understand, but also has so many acronyms that keeping track of them all becomes impossible. Overall good book for getting the basics.

The best introductory book on the topic of Computer Networking

Easy to understand, much redundancy in the book

Aug 23, 2019Leland William rated it it was amazing

4.5 stars, an excellent primer on how computer networks function. Not too detailed, but full of interesting and lively discussion!

Oct 04, 2016Dr-kholoud Elbatsh rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

May 03, 2013Marcin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Great form of an introduction to the networking field, perhaps a little too simplified for an IT student, but overtly simplistic enough for someone embarking on the journey down the bit-stream. This might be the books strength, since the harder topics are easily described and easier do not need any real-life translations. The book follows the idea of top-down approach through both ranges of topics discussed and the language used, as the abstraction level is further abstracted to real-life termin..more

Jan 30, 2016rigelk rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

The top-down approach is here the key to the book’s success, and the main reason you should read it. It begins with what we see of networks to introduce more abstract concepts (ISO 7498), keeping only the useful parts of them. A must read to understand networks in general from the ground down.
For students, the book provides very useful exercises, making that book a good side-course asset. Plus the approach lets you choose what you want to read! (i.e. reading 50% and getting away with it for the..more

Mar 10, 2007Rhapsody Approach

rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: compsci students with no/little exposure to networks

A really nice textbook. Each chapter covers a different network layer. It's very readable with pretty decent explanations and lots of online resources (not that I used those resources even once, but our prof used some of them in class). The traceroute drills I found totally useless and annoying. The rest of the homework problems from the book weren't too bad. It's not a really high-level book or anything, but it's pretty thorough it breadth. One of my peers who'd worked in networks (in industry)..more

Aug 01, 2014Antonio Costa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I recommend it. Very good for students, because of the way things are explained. Good pedagogical approach, even considering the uncommon top down approach (for applications to physical layer). It is very difficult to teach communications while traversing the protocol stack from top to bottom! I clearly prefer the bottom up. Yet the book is useful for both approaches.

Jun 03, 2016Andrew Obrigewitsch rated it it was amazing

This book is amazingly compressive, yet understandable. I must say that I learned more than I ever imagined about networking. Seeing that my job is web development, I was amazed at how little I actually knew about the infrastructure and design of the internet and the protocols which it operates on.

Sep 19, 2012Saeed Top

rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: computer-network, computer, academic, computer-science

Do you have any advice for students about the Internet and networking security?
Learning the mechanisms is the easy part. Learning how to 'think paranoid' is harder. You have to remember that probability distributions don't apply -the attackers can and will find improbable conditions. And the details matter -a lot.

Jun 02, 2012Thomas rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This book will give you a good understanding of how networks work. In my opinion it is not a book for specialists as you won't have an in-depth presentation of every protocol except for TCP/UDP/IP, but it can be used as a reference for those who have to deal with some network issues (if you are a programmer for instance).

I finally learned how the internet works! Quality book for giving an amazing overview of the different concepts and protocols used in networking and an explanation for why our web is implemented in the way it is. It's the textbook we used for my networking fundamentals class at school and it was fun and easy to read.

Feb 14, 2016Daniel Apatiga added it · review of another edition

Didn't read the last few chapters, but I did not skim the ones before.
This was a very informative book. I will apply what I learned to my sister's business when I visit her and at a future job location.