Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Comprehensive, authoritative, practical--an essential guide to the design and operation of telecommunication networks The past decade has seen what can only be described as an evolutionary leap in the field of telecommunication networks. The penetration of data networks, the emergence of the integrated services digital network (ISDN) and Broadband ISDN, and the development of fast packet switching, are just some of the dramatic developments that have emerged over the past few years alone. This book was designed to function as a practical introduction to the core concepts, techniques, and methodologies underlying each of these developments and common to the design and operation of all forms of existing telecommunications networks. Key topics covered include:
* The physical layer of the OSI reference model
* Performance evaluation techniques
* Queueing theory fundamentals and their applications to networks
* Layers 2 and 3 of the OSI reference model -- including an in-depth discussion of protocol standards,routing algorithms, and flow and congestion control techniques
* LAN theory, standards, and technology and multiple access communications techniques
* Network interconnection and the transport layer
* ISDN, Broadband ISDN, and fast packet switching theory and architecture

Fundamentals of Telecommunication Networks is an invaluable resource for systems developers, engineers, and managers responsible for dealing with telecommunications networks and systems.

An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Data Communications Principles
• Queueing Systems
• The Data Link Layer and X.25
• Routing in Packet Switched Networks
• Flow and Congestion Control
• Multiple Access Communication Protocols
• Local Area Network Protocols and Standards
• Network Interconnection
• Transport Protocols
• Integrated Services Digital Networks
• Switching Techniques and Fast Packet Switching
• Appendices
• References
• Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Saadawi and colleagues discuss such fundamental aspects of telecommunication networks as networks, modulation methods, routing, data communications, and network services. However, they give only a short treatment of modulation methods for transmitting digital data on telecommunication channels. Some highly used methods are only briefly mentioned or explored. Combination methods using constellations are not covered at all even though they are very common today. Cellular phones, one of the fastest growing areas of communications, are discussed only briefly. The companion issues of time-domain multiple access and code division multiple access are mentioned but not explored in depth. However, even though one might expect these contemporary topics to be in a 1994 book, the authors provide a good overview of the subject. As the title states, this is a book on "fundamentals" and, in that, the authors have done a good job. They include a chapter on queuing systems, very important to network systems but often omitted. Their material on routing in packed switched networks is also very good. A good addition to works in this field. Upper-division undergraduate; graduate. E. A. Hoyer; Wichita State University

Author notes provided by Syndetics

TAREK N. SAADAWI, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, City College of New York. MOSTAFA H. AMMAR, PhD, is Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. AHMED EL HAKEEM, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University.