Data Communications and Distributed Networks

A practical tutorial which examines the relationships of data communications and distributed networks - with an emphasis on distributed communications protocols, distributed data bases and client-server relationships. It provides a user-friendly, non-algorithmic description of the subject with extensive use of graphics, flow charts and tables, highlighting prevalent distributed network protocols and describing how to manage distributed networks. The book is aimed at first year undergraduate courses in data communications or data networks in departments of computer science or electrical engineering.