Publisher's Synopsis
A practical tutorial which examines the relationships of data communications and distributed networks - with an emphasis on distributed communications protocols, distributed data bases and client-server relationships. It provides a user-friendly, non-algorithmic description of the subject with extensive use of graphics, flow charts and tables, highlighting prevalent distributed network protocols and describing how to manage distributed networks.;The book is aimed at first year undergraduate courses in data communications or data networks in departments of computer science or electrical engineering.
