Communication Networks

Alberto Leon-Garcia is a Professor in the Depatment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toranto where he holds the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Computer Network and Innovation. He was also Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of Accelight Networks Inc. where he led the development of a terabit multiservice optical switch. In 1999 Dr. Leon-Garcia became an IEEE fellow for "for Contribution to multiplexing and switching of Integrated Service traffic." Inra Widjaja received his Ph.D degree in electrical engineering on high-speed packet switching architectures from the uiversity of Toronto in 1992. Since 2001 he has been a researcher at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. Dr.Widjaja's current research interests include traffic Engineering, architectures for cost effective tranport networks, and High-Speed packet Switching. He has Extensive publication in technical journals and high-Speed packet Switching. He has an Extensive Publication in technical Journals and Conferences and holds several patents in Switching architectures. He is also an active member of IETF and IEEE.

1 Communication Networks and Services2 Layered Architectures3 Digital Transmission Fundamentals4 Circuit-Switching Networks5 Peer-to-Peer Protocols and Data Link Layer6 Medium Access Control Protocols and Local Area Networks7 Packet-Switching Networks8 TCP/IP9 ATM Networks10 Advanced Network Architectures11 Security Protocols12 Multimedia Information and NetworkingAppendix A Delay and Loss PerformanceAppendix B Network Management