Data Networks (2nd Edition)

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Summary: Great book for Reference and Fundamentals
Review: 'Data Networks' proves an excellent source for Delay/Queue Models, Routing concepts and Flow Control. Most Topics cover concepts as well as provide research material. A Great reference and study text.

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Summary: Not for beginers, but magnificent for serious readers
Review: I higherly recommend this book to anyone who is serious in the data networking area. You do need a lot math to appreciate the book, but I guess that's the only way to really understand data networking also. And, don't be scared by the math, if you sit down, follow through the math carefully, you will find the math in this book is clearly presented and easy to understand.

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Summary: This is excellent for a solid background in network theory
Review: I read this book during my graduate course in EE ten years ago. It requires good background in mathematics (maybe a little more than a freshman calculus), but as a result you learn the topic with a solid fundemental, and good mathematical modelling. For anybody who deals with communication networks (in theory or practically) this book should be on his/her shelf.

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Summary: too much maths...
Review: The book is full of formuales.it does not build concepts by starting from the simple and then moving to more complex topics.a lot of the derivations are left unfinished to be worked out by the reader.Not a book I would recommend for a beginner.I really wish they had a lot more solved examples..

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Summary: Excellent foundation for an understanding of data comm.
Review: This book covers the very foundations of data communications for the design engineer. It contains some intense mathematics in some areas, but if you've had high quality college math (year of calculus and some engineering type math), you can handle it. The queueing theory, multiaccess theory (ALOHA to ethernet and beyond), and optimal routing theory are actually foundations for many aspects of data comm. If you're in datacomm and don't have a solid education in that area, this book is for you.

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Summary: Poor introductory choice - A reference book at best
Review: This book, while it may be a somewhat useful reference tool, is the epitome of a worthless textbook. A good, comprehensive textbook is well organized, explains concepts thoroughly and provides worked theoretical and numerical examples. This book fails on all 3 points. It seems the authors are so full of themselves that they can't stoop to the level of proving anything stated in the book. Virtually all proofs in this book are left as end of the chapter exercises. This begs one question: If I could work the proofs of all the problems in this book why would I buy the book in the first place? This books is yet another example of a textbook written by university professors who don't know how to explain concepts to students. Notice the fact that most of the positive reviews for this book are from people well versed in the topic - those in industry or those pursuing PhD's on the topic. This is indicative of the fact that this book is NOT for beginners. Also, the title is misleading - this book is strictly on mathmatical models of data networks. Anyone looking for specifics of any data networking scheme should certainly look elsewhere.

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Summary: excellent treatment of mathematical modeling of networks
Review: This is definitely not a book for understanding the Internet routing protocols, plus its content is at least 10 years out-of-date. However, it provides a very nice treatment of mathematical modeling of various aspects of networks, from link layer to transport layer. This is rarely available in a "current" networking textbook. If you are interesting in this part, this is an invaluable textbook as well as a reference.

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Summary: excellent book for those who want to understand the data net
Review: This is really the kind of book you would like if you are intersted in learning the fundemantals of data networks as well as if you are trying to understand the idea in the network optimization and network analysis and performance

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Summary: excellent treatment of mathematical modeling of networks
Review: what I want to say is this is a valuable reference for EE engineers and researchers.

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Summary: bible for EE network guys
Review: what I want to say is this is a valuable reference for EE engineers and researchers.