[ns] Which reference book about networks is the most preferable

[Hongzheng Wang]

Thank you for your reply.

My background is communications, not computer science, and I found
most reference books about networks are from a view of computer
networks; they are not very applicable for me in fact.  I have read
`data networks' by Bertsekas and Gallager.  It's wonderful.  I want to
find more reference books like that, that is, consisting of not only
defacto networks protocols but also more fundamental materials, such
as from a view of information theory.  I agree that the networks is a
so huge topic that there may not be a reference book covering all
aspects.  I just wonder if there are reference books from a view of
communication networks instead of computer networks, althought the
difference between these two concepts might be not quite clear.


On 4/28/05, Liang Nikko <fsnikko at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Hongzheng
> 
> Networking is a huge topic. There are quite a lot resources of different
> fields such as wireless, IPv6, routing, security etc. in Internet. In each
> of these fields, there are still many topics available. Thus, maybe there
> is no preferable books for doing researches. However, jounary papers are
> good resources.
> 
> If you are a novice in this field, you had better read some textbooks about
> data communications and networking.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lihao
> 
> Department of Computing and Information Systems
> University of Luton
> U.K
> 
> >
> >Message: 3
> >Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:04:17 +0800
> >From: Hongzheng Wang <wanghz at gmail.com>
> >Subject: [ns] Which reference book about networks is the most
> >       preferable
> >To: ns-users at ISI.EDU
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> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >There are many text book about networks available now.  I wonder which
> >one is the most preferable one for a researcher in this field.
> >
> >Could you give me any suggestion about it?
> >
> >Thank you very much.
> >
> >--
> >Hongzheng Wang
> >
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Hongzheng Wang
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Tsinghua University
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