A Deeper Perspective on the Fundamentals of Digital Communication, Security, and Privacy Protocols

Kutub Thakur is the founder Director of NJCU Center for cybersecurity, Assistant professor and Director of Cybersecurity Program at New Jersey City University. He worked for various private and public entities such as United Nations, New York University, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital, ConEdison, City University of New York, and Metropolitan Transport Authority. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science with specialization in cybersecurity from the Pace University, New York, M.S in Engineering Electrical and Computer Control systems from University of Wisconsin, B.S and A.A.S in Computer Systems Technology from the City University of New York (CUNY). He reviewed for many prestigious journals and published several papers in reputable journals and conferences. His research interests include digital forensics, network security, machine learning, IoT security, privacy, and user behavior. Dr. Thakur is currently serving/served as the program chair for many conferences and workshop. He is also currently supervising (also, supervised) many graduate and doctoral students for their theses, proposals, and dissertations in the field of cybersecurity. Abu S. Kamruzzaman is an assistant professor (adjunct) teaching undergraduate and graduate levels computing courses in various campuses in NYC since 2001. His current full-time IT title Enterprise Application Developer where he supports MS SQL based Data warehouse and Microsoft .Net Web Enterprise applications infrastructure. Abu maintained multiple IT careers in multiple public entities in NYC since 2001. He has over 20 years of professional experiences building and leading projects for Mobile applications, Enterprise applications, web applications, databases, and Data Analytics. He is proficient working with both Windows and UNIX environments enterprise systems. He received PhD degree in Computer Science (CS) concentration Artificial Intelligence from Pace University, NY, USA and MA in CIS from Brooklyn College/CUNY, USA and BS in CS from Binghamton University/SUNY, USA and AAS in CS from LaGuardia C. College. Abu built apps frequently used by 500K+ active users and 20M+ historic users. He also built dashboards and analysis as a Senior Business Intelligence Architect in CUNYSmart team building the data warehouse for the City University of New York (CUNY) that enrolls over 0.5M students per semester. Abu has multiple publications and journal including IEEE. He has presented and chaired in multiple conferences nationally and internationally. Abu research interest include Data Science, Cyber Security, Machine Learning, Quantum Computing, and Cloud Computing. He is the recipient of multiple awards for his extra ordinary accomplishments. Abu also served in the dissertation committees for CS PhD students and a faculty of DPS doctoral program at Pace University. Al-Sakib Khan Pathan is a Professor at the CSE department, United International University (UIU), Bangladesh. He received Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (2009) from Kyung Hee University, South Korea and B.Sc. in Computer Science and Information Technology (2003) from Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh. He has served as a Chair and Committee Member in numerous top-ranked conferences and in editorial roles of several renowned journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Part One

Introduction to Analog & Digital Communication Protocols

Chapter 01 – Evolution of Communication Protocols

Chapter 02 – Introduction to Analog Communication Protocols

Chapter 03 – Introduction to Digital Communication Protocols

Part Two

Chapter 04 – Major Telephony Protocols

Chapter 05 – Important Data Communication Protocols

Chapter 06 – Wireless and Cellular Communication Protocols

Chapter 07 – Fiber Optic Data Transmission Protocols

Part Three

Chapter 08 – Network Security Protocols

Chapter 09 – Wireless Security Protocols

Chapter 10 – Server Level Security Systems

Chapter 11 – Privacy

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