Description
Over the past few years, many fundamental changes have occurred in data communications and networking that will shape the future for decades to come.Updated with the latest advances in the field, Alan Dennis and Alexandra Durcikova's 11th Edition of Fundamentals of Business Data Communications continues to provide the fundamental concepts and cutting-edge coverage applications that students need to succeed in this fast-moving field.
Authors Dennis and Durcikova have developed a foundation and balanced presentation from which new technologies and applications can be easily understood, evaluated, and compared.
Balanced coverage of the technical and managerial aspects of data communications helps students understand how networks operate and how to successfully apply them.
Real-life examples throughout the text illustrate the complex uses of networks in recent years including mini-cases in Management Focus boxes which show how real organizations are using telecommunications and networking.
The text covers all the important topics in data communications. Every important technology and/or network management issue is addressed in enough depth to give the student a basic understanding.
Online material to help you teach the course including an online lab manual, OPNET labs, and animations to help students visualize and understand concepts more effectively
New to This Edition
Combined wireless and wired LANs into one chapter and thus reducing the number of chapters from 13 to 12
Expanded and added new hands-on activities with deliverables to each chapter.
Several labs are included that use Wireshark. The activities are designed to reinforce the key concepts in each chapter, as well as to provide an interesting, practical use of network technology. These activities could be used as demonstrations in class, lab exercises, or activities given as homework.
Chapter 5 has been significantly updated. This additional material should make it easier for the students to understand TCP/IP.
More detailed description of the TCP/IP handshakes is provided
New section in this chapter describes the anatomy of a router
Chapter on network security now has a new hand-on assignment that asks the students to use PGP to encrypt and decrypt an e-mail message using public key encryption.
This assignment will help students to better understand how to post a public key and the procedure for encrypting a message.
Reduced complexity and bulk by removing older technologies that are fading from use.
Table of Contents PART I - INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO DATA COMMUNICATIONS PART II - FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
CHAPTER 2 NETWORK APPLICATIONS
CHAPTER 3 CIRCUITS AND TRANSMISSION
CHAPTER 4 DATA LINK LAYER
CHAPTER 5 TCP/IP PART III - NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES
CHAPTER 6 WIRED AND WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS
CHAPTER 7 BACKBONES
CHAPTER 8 WIDE AREA NETWORKS
CHAPTER 9 THE INTERNET PART IV- NETWORK MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 10 SECURITY
CHAPTER 11 DESIGNING NETWORKS
CHAPTER 12 NETWORK ADMINISTRATION
Professor Alan Dennis is professor of information systems in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and holds the John T. Chambers Chair in Internet Systems. The Chambers Chair was established to honor John Chambers, president and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader of networking technologies for the Internet.
Prior to joining Indiana University, Professor Dennis spent nine years as a professor at the University of Georgia, where he won the Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Professor Dennis has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and an MBA from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. His Ph.D. in management of information systems is from the University of Arizona. Prior to entering the Arizona doctoral program, he spent three years on the faculty of Queen's School of Business.
Dr. Jerry Fitzgerald is the principal in Jerry Fitzgerald & Associates, a firm he started in 1977. He has extensive in risk analysis, computer security, audit and control of computerized systems, data communications, networks, and systems analysis. He has been active in risk-assessment studies, computer security, audit reviews, designing controls into applications during the new system development process, date communication networks, bank wire transfer systems, and electronic data interchange and date communication networks. Dr. FitzGerald has a Ph.D.in business economics and a master's degree in business economics from the Claremont Graduate School, an MBA from the University of Santa Clara, and a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Michigan State University. He is a certified information systems auditor (CISA) and holds a certificate in data processing (CDP). He belongs to the EDP Auditors Association (EDPAA), the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). Dr. FitzGerald has been a faculty member at several California universities and a consultant at SRI International.
Alexandra Durcikova is an Assistant Professor at the Eller College of Business, University of Arizona. Alexandra has a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from University of Pittsburgh. She has earned a M.Sc. degree in Solid States Physics from Comenius University, Bratislava, worked as an experimental physics researcher in the area of superconductivity and as an instructor of executive MBA students prior to pursuing her Ph.D. Alexandra's research interests include knowledge management and knowledge management systems, knowledge management system characteristics, governance mechanisms in the use of knowledge management systems; and human compliance with security policy and characteristics of successful phishing attempts within the area of network security. Her research appears in Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and Communications of the ACM.