Courses:

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This section contains useful references and web sites related to the networking topics discussed in this course.

Kurose, J., and K. Ross. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Longman, 2002. ISBN: 0201976994. [also available for purchase on Amazon.com ]

Keshav, S. An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking. 1st ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997. ISBN: 0201634422.

Walrand, Jean. Communication Networks: A First Course. Mc Graw Hill, 1998. ISBN: 0256174040.

Tanenbaum, Andrew. Computer Networks. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0133499456. (Search for Tanenbaum on the Prentice Hall site).

Bertsekas, Dmitri, and Robert Gallager. Data Networks. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991. ISBN: 0132009161. (Search for Bertsekas on the Prentice Hall site).

Partridge, Craig. Gigabit Networking. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1993. ISBN: 0201563339.

Stallings.

Huitema, Christian. Routing in the Internet. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN: 0130226475. (Search for Huitema on the Prentice Hall site.)

Perlman, Radia. Interconnections: Bridges and Routers. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1992. ISBN: 0201563320.

Steenstrup, Martha. Routing in Communication Networks. 1st ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995. ISBN: 0130107522. (Search for Steenstrup on the Prentice Hall site.)

BGP4.

Stevens, W. Richards. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. ISBN: 0201776316.

———. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. ISBN: 0201776316.

———. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Datagram Protocols. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. ISBN: 0201776316.

Comer, Douglas. Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume 1: Principles, Protocols and Architecture. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0130183806. (Search for Comer on the Prentice Hall site).

Huitema, Christian. IPv6: The New Internet Protocol. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN: 0138505055. (Search for Huitema on the Prentice Hall site).

Deering, Stephen. "Multicast Routing in a Datagram Internetwork, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3." Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, 1991.

Paul, Sanjoy. Multicasting on the Internet and its Applications. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 0792382005. (Search for it on Amazon using the keyword "Sanjoy Paul".)

Ken Miller.

Solomon, J. Mobile IP: The Internet Unplugged. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN: 0138562466.

Perkins, Charlie. Mobile IP: Design Principles and Practices. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN: 0201634694.

Garg, Vijay, and Joseph Wilkes. Wireless and Personal Communication Systems. IEEE Press, 2000. ISBN: 0780348184.

Kleinrock, Len. Queueing Theory. New York, NY: Wiley, 1975. ISBN: 0471491101.

Wetherall, David. "Service Introduction in an Active Network." Ph. D Thesis, M.I.T., 1999.

• Collected resources about writing and research

• ACM
  • SIGCOMM (has links to online versions of some past SIGCOMM proceedings)
  • SIGMOBILE
    
    
• IEEE
  • Communication Society
  • Computer Society

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  • Internet RFCs
  • Internet Drafts
    
    
• Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)
  • Reliable Multicast Research Group
    
    
• Domain Names

• Bluetooth Device Networking (also here)
• Cable Modem Information
  • 802.14 (Cable Modem MCNS Standard)
  • DOCSIS Specification
    
    
• 802.3
• 802.11 (Wireless LAN Spec)
• DSL

• Internet Traffic Archive

• ns (network simulator and nam network animator) and preferred tool of 6.899
• OPNET 

Graduate networks/Internet courses elsewhere

• Berkeley
• Carnegie Mellon
• Columbia
• Cornell
• Georgia Tech
• Illinois
• Michigan
• MIT 6.263
• Princeton
• Stanford
• UCLA
• Univ College London (UCL)
• U Mass (Amherst)
• USC (Seminar class is different)
• Washington (Seattle)
• Washington (St. Louis)