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

[Liang Nikko]

Hi, 

In my opinion, nowadays many computing people are doing research on 
networking. And in some networking researches EE people are supposed to 
have high level computer science knowledge as well. Sometimes it dose not 
make any sense to differentiate them in some research topics. Maybe what 
you mentioned communication network usually refers to lower layers such as 
physical, data link and computer network focuses on the higher ones like 
network and transport layers etc, then computer science is working for the 
highest layer - application.

By the way, I think you can find some reference books suitable to you from 
Amazon.com.  But you have to buy it online.

Regards,

Lihao

Department of Computing and Information Systems
University of Luton
U.K

>From: Hongzheng Wang <wanghz at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Hongzheng Wang <wanghz at gmail.com>
>To: Liang Nikko <fsnikko at hotmail.com>
>CC: ns-users at isi.edu
>Subject: Re: [ns] Which reference book about networks is the most 
preferable
>Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:33:58 +0800
>
>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.
> > >
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