Ying-Dar Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, and Fred Baker's "Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach" is the first text to implement an open source approach, discussing the network layers, their applications, and the implementation issues. The book features 56 open-source code examples to narrow the gap between domain knowledge and hands-on skills. Students learn by doing and are aided by the book's extensive pedagogy. Lin/Hwang/Baker is designed for the first course in computer networks for computer science undergraduates or first year graduate students.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Fundamentals Chapter 2: Physical Layer Chapter 3: Link Layer Chapter 4: Internet Protocol Layer Chapter 5: Transport Layer Chapter 6: Application layer Chapter 7: Internet QoS Chapter 8: Network Security Appendix A: Who's Who Appendix B: Linux Kernel Overview Appendix C: Development Tools Appendix D: Network Utilities