Introduction to Computer Networking

Thomas G. Robertazzi received the Ph.D from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1981 and the B.E.E. from the Cooper Union, New York, NY in 1977. A Fellow of the IEEE, he is presently a Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook N.Y.  He has published extensively in the areas of parallel processor scheduling, ad hoc radio networks, telecommunications network planning, switching, queueing and Petri networks. Prof. Robertazzi has also authored, co-authored or edited six books in the areas of networking, performance evaluation, scheduling and network planning.  For thirteen years Prof. Robertazzi was the faculty director of the Stony Brook Living Learning Center in Science and Engineering.  Since 2008 he has been co-chair of the Stony Brook University Senate Research Committee.

“This book is full of interesting information … with concise details about each variant of the technology under consideration. Students, network engineers, and information technology (IT) professionals will find it invaluable. … I learned a lot about evolving network technologies from this book. … there is sufficient information to whet the reader’s appetite and direct him to places where more detail can be found. A number of references are listed at the end of the book.” (Computing Reviews, October, 2017)

• Introduction to Networks.- Ethernet.- InfiniBand.- Wireless Networks.- Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).- Optical Networks for Telecommunications.- Software-Defined Networking.- Networks on Chips.- Space Networking.- Grids, Clouds and Data Centers.- AES and Quantum Cryptography.- Bibliography.