Computer Networks, Fifth Edition

Computer Networks, 5/e is appropriate for Computer Networking or Introduction to Networking courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, CIS, MIS, and Business Departments. Tanenbaum takes a structured approach to explaining how networks work from the inside out. He starts with an explanation of the physical layer of networking, computer hardware and transmission systems; then works his way up to network applications. Tanenbaum's in-depth application coverage includes email; the domain name system; the World Wide Web (both client- and server-side); and multimedia (including voice over IP, Internet radio video on demand, video conferencing, and streaming media. Each chapter follows a consistent approach: Tanenbaum presents key principles, then illustrates them utilizing real-world example networks that run through the entire book?the Internet, and wireless networks, including Wireless LANs, broadband wireless and Bluetooth. The Fifth Edition includes a chapter devoted exclusively to network security. The textbook is supplemented by a Solutions Manual, as well as a Website containing PowerPoint slides, art in various forms, and other tools for instruction, including a protocol simulator whereby students can develop and test their own network protocols.

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Modern Operating Systems

For the professional software development and computer science students, Modern Operating Systems gives a solid conceptual design of operating systems, including detailed case studies of Unix / Linux and Windows 2000. What makes a modern operating system? The development of faster hardware and more progress has been encouraging progress in the software, including enhancements to the operating system. It is one thing to run older operating system on current hardware, and another to effectively utilize the best hardware to serve modern software applications. His earlier book came bundled with the source code for the operating system called Minux, a simple variant of Unix and the platform used by Linus Torvalds to develop Linux. Although this book does not come with source code, he illustrates many points with code fragments (C, usually with Unix system calls). The first half of Modern Operating Systems focuses on the concepts of traditional operating systems: processes, deadlock, memory management, I / O, and file systems. It is enlightening to read Tanenbaum explanation about the design decisions made by the teacher operating system of the past, including his view that additional research on the problem of deadlock is impractical except for "keeping otherwise unemployed graph theorists from the street." This is the second part of the book that differentiates itself from the operating system texts are older. Finally, the importance of security is discussed - an enumeration of living of the score the way the operating system could be vulnerable to attack, from password security to computer viruses and Internet worms. Included at the end of this book of case studies of two popular operating systems: Unix / Linux and Windows 2000. Both operating systems are dissected, describing how each implements processes, file systems, memory management, and other operating system fundamentals. Tanenbaum mantra is simple, accessible operating system design. 

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Distributed Operating System

As computer systems become more widely distributed, there is a need for a book that explains how the operating system they designed and implemented:. KEY TOPICS It includes material from the original book, including communication, synchronization, processes and system files, and adds new material on distributed shared memory. 

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