Literature

Main Text-Book

The course will mainly be based on the book: James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, Sixth Edition, Pearson Education, 2012, ISBN-13: 9780273768968, ISBN-10 0-27376-896-4. This is available as an e-book: https://www-dawsonera-com.focus.lib.kth.se/abstract/9780273775638

Note that there is on-line material for the 6th edition of the textbook; this includes animations and other useful material. Additional material (access requires the code from your textbook).

Differences from the 2nd edition are list on page xxxi of the 3rd edition. The most significant for this course is that the 3rd edition covers: SCTP, more about security, and more examples (using ping, netstat, etc.).

Reading guide: read the entire book.

Additional Reference Books

• Behrouz A. Forouzan, TCP/IP Protocol Suite, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, publication date January 2005, (Copyright 2006) 896 pages, ISBN 0-07-296772-2 (hardbound) or 0-07-111583-8 (softbound)
• Russell Bradford, The Art of Computer Networking, Pearson Education Limited, Prentice Hall, 2007, 304 pages, ISBN 978-0-321-30676-0 ( links collected by the textbook's author)
• Mobile IP: Design Principles and Practices by Charles E. Perkins, Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN 0-201-63469-4.
• Mobile IP: the Internet Unplugged by James D. Solomon, Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN 0-13-856246-6.
• Muhhub Hassan and Raj Jain, Higher Performance TCP/IP Networking: Concepts, Issues, and Solutions Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2004, ISBN 0-13-127257-8.