Advanced Data Communications and Networks

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This book provides a comprehensive and practical treatment of such rapidly evolving areas as Fast Ethernet, ATM networks, FDDI networks and many others. It analyses practical LANs and WANs and deals with how they interconnect with other networks. PrefacexviiINTRODUCTION1(14)1.1 Introduction1(1)1.2 A little bit of history1(7)1.3 Information8(1)1.4 Digital versus analogue9(1)1.5 Conversion to digital10(1)1.6 Sampling theory11(1)1.7 Quantization12(1)1.8 Exercises13(2)COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES15(14)2.1 Introduction15(1)2.2 Compression methods16(1)2.3 Letter probabilities16(3)2.4 Coding methods19(1)2.5 Statistical encoding20(1)2.6 Repetitive sequence suppression21(4)2.7 Differential encoding25(1)2.…