Computer networks and their protocols / D. W. Davies ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Davies, Donald Watts.
Material type: BookSeries: Wiley series in computing.Publisher: Chichester [Eng.] ; New York : Wiley, c1979Description: xv, 487 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0471887501; 0471997501.Subject(s): Computer networksDDC classification: 004.68Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Second Edition has been rewritten to provide additional coverage of topics such as urban development and third world cities as well as social issues including homelessness, jobs/housing mismatch and transportation disadvantages. It has also been updated with 1990 Census data.
'A Wiley-Interscience publication'.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Computer Networks -- Packet Switching -- Routing -- Flow control and congestion avoidance -- Packet Broadcast systems -- Communication Protocols and Interfaces -- High level Protocols -- Terminals in the Network -- Message Authentication -- Network Optimisation.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Urban Geography Today
- The Origin and Growth of Cities
- The Third World City
- The North American City
- Metropolitan Dominance and Movement
- The Urban Physical Environment
- City Development: Theory and Practice
- Central Place Theory
- Transportation Processes
- Perception and Quality of Life Issues
- Land Use Dynamics
- Housing and Neighborhoods
- Ethnicity in the City
- Intraurban Migration and Household Change
- Central Business District Dynamics
- Metropolitan Retail Structure
- The Office Function
- Intrametropolitan Industrial and Wholesale Space
- Planning, Regulation and the Future
- Author Index?
- Subject Index
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Truman Asa Hartshorn is the author of Interpreting the City: An Urban Geography, 2nd Edition, published by Wiley.