Principles of data transfer through communications networks, the internet, and autonomous mobiles / Izhak Rubin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubin, Izhak, author.

Contributor:

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data transmission systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (732 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2025]

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

About the Author

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction: Networking in a Nutshell

1.1 Purpose

1.2 Networking Terms and Network Elements

1.3 Network Transport Processes

1.4 An Illustrative Transport Process: Sending Packages Across a Shipping Network

1.5 A Layered Communications Networking Architecture

1.6 Communications Network Architecture: User, Control, and Management Planes

1.6.1 Network Architectural Planes

1.6.2 The Data (User) Plane

1.6.3 The Control Plane

1.6.4 The Management Plane

1.7 Illustrative Network Systems

1.7.1 Highway Transportation

1.7.2 Inter-regional Road System

1.7.3 Train Transportation Network

1.7.4 Enterprise Computer Communications Network

1.7.5 Packet-Switching Network and the Internet

1.7.6 Cellular Wireless Networks

1.7.7 WiFi: Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs)

1.7.8 Satellite Communications Networks

1.7.9 Autonomous Vehicular Networks

1.7.10 Sensor Networks and Internet of Things (IoT)

Problems

Chapter 2 Information Sources, Communications Signals, and Multimedia Flows

2.1 End Users

2.2 Message Flows

2.3 Service Classes

2.4 Analog and Digital Signals

2.4.1 Analog and Digital Sources

2.4.2 Analog Signals

2.4.3 Digital Signals

2.4.4 Discretization: Analog-to-Digital Signal Conversion

2.5 Frequency Spectrum and Bandwidth

2.5.1 Time Domain and Frequency Domain

2.5.2 Frequency Spectrum of Periodic Signals

2.5.3 Frequency Spectrum of Nonperiodic Signals

2.5.4 Nyquist Sampling Rate

2.6 Audio Streaming

2.6.1 Audio Encoding and Streaming Across a Communications Circuit

2.6.1.1 Audio Encoding

2.6.1.2 Replay and Reconstruction of a Transported Stream

2.6.1.3 Transport of a Stream Across a Circuit-Switched Communications Network

2.6.2 Audio Streaming across a Packet-Switching Communications Network: Voice Over IP (VoIP)

2.6.2.1 Voice Over IP (VoIP)

2.6.2.2 The VoIP Streaming Process and the Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP)

2.6.2.3 Other CODECs and VOCODERs

2.6.2.4 Quality Metrics

2.7 Video Flows and Streams

2.7.1 Conversion of Light Waves to Electrical Signals

2.7.2 Digital Still Images

2.7.3 Full Motion Video

2.7.4 Video Compression

2.7.5 Transporting IP Video Streams over Communications Networks

2.7.6 Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)

2.7.7 Performance Measures

2.8 Data Flows

Chapter 3 Transmissions over Communications Channels

3.1 Communications Media

3.2 Wireline Communications Media

3.3 Wireless Communications Media

3.4 Message Transmission Over a Communications Channel

3.5 Noisy Communications Channels

3.6 Illustrative Calculation of Signal-to-Noise-plus-Interference Ratio (SINR)

3.7 Channel Capacity

3.8 Modulation/Coding Schemes (MCSs)

3.8.1 The Modulation Concept

3.8.2 Analog Modulation Techniques

Notes:

3.8.3 Digital Modulation Techniques

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Print version: Rubin, Izhak Principles of Data Transfer Through Communications Networks, the Internet, and Autonomous Mobiles

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9781394267781

1394267789

9781394267774

1394267770

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90101085820

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