Protocol Design for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks

Appropriate for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in local and metropolitan area networks. This is the only book on the market that gives a comprehensive, algorithmic approach to medium-access control protocols for local and metropolitan area networks (LANs and MANs). It introduces a programming language (SMURPH) for demonstrating these protocols in high-level terms, while retaining their implementation-level details. Protocols expressed in SMURPH are executable and easy to experiment with.