Data Link Protocols - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 013204918X ISBN 13: 9780132049184

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1993

Synopsis

The only reference and tutorial on the market covering all the major data link protocols in use in industry. (Data link protocols (DLPs) manage the flow of data across a communications path and ensure that this traffic arrives error-free at the receiving machine.) Examines relative merit and pros/cons of each. Covers both synchronous and asynchronous protocols as well as WAN and LAN links. Protocols covered include: LAPD, LAPB, LEEE LAN Link Protocols, LAPM, Frame Relay, Internet Link Protocols, SDLC as well as wireless link protocols. The value of these protocols for their underlying network technologies is examined; for example the relationship of LAPD to ISDN nets or LAPB to X.25 nets. For programmers, engineers, project managers responsible for designing, installing, and maintaining communication systems using data link protocols.

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From the Publisher:

If protocols are used to manage traffic between individual computers and ensure that traffic arrives error-free. This is a combined tutorial and reference on all the major datalink protocols in use today. For programmers and project managers designing and maintaining communication systems using DCC's. This is the only book on the market to describe all the major datalink protocols in use today and to offer quidelines for the use of a specific DLP in a given distribution.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 013204918X
• ISBN 13: 9780132049184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320