Local Area Networks
Local Area Networks

Author: Behrouz A. Forouzan

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 9780071150804

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Local Area Networks (LANs) have become an integral part of communication in today's world. The establishments that use LAN applications include businesses, educational facilities, hospitals, stock exchanges and warehouses. This book offers reader-friendly, comprehensive coverage of LAN technologies, teaching the reader how to use them in real-world applications. The text is ideal for students both in the classroom and later as a reference. Forouzan motivates topics by practical applications, and his liberal use of figures makes difficult technical topics easier to grasp by providing an intuitive, visual representation of concepts. Extensive practice sets are also provided at the end of each chapter, which reinforce what the student has learned The book is also up-to-date, presenting indepth material on such current topics as Gigabit Ethernet, ATM LAN, Wireless LAN, VPN and VLAN.

Local Area Network Management, Design and Security
Local Area Network Management, Design and Security

Author: Arne Mikalsen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2002-06-10

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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How to use LANs to help your company grow A vital component of today’s business, Local Area Networks (LANs) allow organizations to link their computers together for maximum work sharing, collaboration among geographically disparate teams, and other essential business functions. This book helps system administrators and IT professionals set up LANs and Intranets in a way that will contribute to their company’s growth and success. Beginning with the theoretical foundation for LAN operation and design, it covers the applicable data communications principles, then goes on to explore both LAN hardware and infrastructure design, network operating systems, LAN management and security. The book also gives a practical introduction to the world’s most popular network operating systems—Windows 2000, Novell NetWare, and Linux. Finally, the book takes an in-depth look at business and management issues, with special emphasis given to the impact of Intranets on business goals.

Local Area Networks
Local Area Networks

Author: John McNamara

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-06-28

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1483297233

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This concise book provides an objective introduction to local area networks - how they work, what they do, and how you can benefit from them. It outlines the pros and cons of the most common configurations so you can evaluate them in light of your own needs. You'll also learn about network software, with special emphasis on the ISO layered model of communications protocols.

Modeling and Analysis of Local Area Networks
Modeling and Analysis of Local Area Networks

Author: Paul J. Fortier

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1351091581

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Modeling and Analysis of Local Area Networks fills a void in the array of books on Local Area Networks (LANs) in that it reviews the state of LAN technology from a hardware and software perspective, develops a set of metrics that can be used to evaluate LANs for end applications, and investigates methodologies for evaluating LANs from these perspectives. The book discusses LAN evaluation techniques utilizing analysis, operational analysis, hardware testbeds, and simulations. Simulations will be stressed in greater detail and a tool available for evaluating LANs performance (called MALAN) is presented and the details of its structure developed.

Simulation of Local Area Networks
Simulation of Local Area Networks

Author: Matthew N. O. Sadiku

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1351085085

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A fast-growing area in the communications industry is the internetworking of an ever-increasing proliferation of computers, particularly via local area networks (LANs). The LAN is a resource-sharing data communications network being used by many offices to interchange information such as electronic mail, word processing, and files among computers and other devices. This unique book shows the user how to establish the performance characteristics of a LAN before putting it to use in a particular type of situation. Simulation of Local Area Networks consists of eight chapters, each with its own extensive list of references. The first chapter provides a brief review of local area networks, and the second chapter gives the analytical models of popular LANs-token-passing bus and ring networks, CSMA/CD LANs, and star networks. Chapter 3 covers general principles of simulation, and Chapter 4 discusses fundamental concepts in probability and statistics relating to simulation modeling. Materials in Chapters 3 and 4 are specifically applied in developing simulation models on token-passing LANs, CSMA/CD LANs, and star LANs in Chapters 5 through 7. The computer code in Chapters 5, 6, and 7 is divided into segments, and a detailed explanation of each segment is provided. The last chapter reviews special-purpose languages such as GPSS, SIMSCRIPT, GASP, SIMULA, SLAM, and RESQ. Helpful criteria for language selection are included. The entire code is put together in the appendixes. This book has two major advantages over existing texts. First, it uses C, a well-developed general-purpose language that is familiar to most analysts. Second, the text specifically applies the simulation principles to local area networks. No other book available shows the systems analyst how to evaluate the performance of existing or proposed systems under different kinds of conditions.

Protecting Information on Local Area Networks
Protecting Information on Local Area Networks

Author: James A Schweitzer

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1483192644

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Protecting Information on Local Area Networks presents the various types of networks and explains why they are being expanded at such a rapid pace. This book considers how management can gain control of the valuable network-services information resources generally available. Organized into three parts encompassing seven chapters, this book begins with an overview of the various networks and their operations. This text then discusses the appropriate management actions to ensure some control over the use of networks and the business information resource. Other chapters consider the management rationale for network information security and explain the development of a company information network security policy. This book discusses as well security or network-connected personal computers. The final chapter deals with a number of major vulnerabilities of information when communicated or processed on network-connected personal computers. This book is a valuable resource for research scientists, technical security specialists, information systems specialists, and systems administrators.