Standards Organizations: A review of some important standards-making organizations, including IETF, ITU, ISO, IEEE 802, and ATM Forum.
URL/URI: Describes Uniform Resource Locators and Uniform Resource Identifiers.
Augmented BNF: Described the formal language used in a number of RFCs. It is used to define the format of RFC 822 email messages, Web addresses, and other specifications.
Derivations: In a number of places in the book, I skip some steps in deriving a result. More detailed derivations are provided here.
Errata sheet: Latest list of errors, updated at most monthly. File name is Errata-DCC7e-mmyy.
cnet Simulator: Developed by Professor Chris McDonald at the University of Western Australia. The cnet network simulator enables experimentation with various data link layer, network layer, routing and transport layer protocols, and with various network configurations.
Tools Page: Developed by Professor Kenneth Christensen at the University of South Florida. The tools page contains downloadable tools primarily related to performance evaluation of computer networks and to TCP/IP sockets programming. .
Projects Manual: This manual, developed by Prentice Hall, contains over 40 exercises that are suitable for use with Data and Computer Communications. It is available at a discount for courses using this textbook.
Standards: Variety of information on standards and standards bodies, provided by the IEEE Standards in Education Task Force.
Data Link Simulator: Developed by Peter King at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. This tool enables students to write connection oriented data link protocols in Java and have them tested on a simulated communication channel.
