Computer Communication Networks
CSI 416 and 516
Dr. Stephen Bush bushsf@research.ge.com
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Miscellaneous On-line Networking related Resources
- Networking Documentation (and publishers of documentation)
- 4.4 BSD documentation - The BSD socket interface is the standard (and in fact many vendors use the BSD protocol stacks). The PSD (programmer's supplementary documents) are useful (although dated) especially PSDs 20 through 28.
- Chalmers Universities Quick Tour Around TCP by F. Cela , with some very interesting visualizations of flow control and ARQ protocols.
- Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia - Has all of the IETF RFCs in a nice HTML format
- Jim Frost's BSD Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer - A very good (and brief) tutorial on socket programming.
- The IETF Home Page - The Internet Engineering Task Force (a standardization body)
- The IETF Working Groups - Active working groups within the IETF
- The UCB/LBNL/VINT Network Simulator
- O'Reilly Books - A leader in after market technical manuals, targeted to developers and systems administrators.
- Schulzrinne's Internet Technical Resources
- Schulzrinne's Network Bibliography
- Physical Phenomena and Engineering Explained
- Edelman's Submarine Communication This New Scientist article describes Edelman et al.'s approach to using multipath interference to provide secure underwater sonar communication.
- The Faraday Lecture "Tour of the digital world" has some electronics terminology and explanations (fairly accessible).
- Multipath Interference on Telemetry Channels by Kenneth Welling is especially lucid in its explanation.
- Carl R. Nave's Hyperphysics has a nice treatment of scattering (including the Rayleigh scattering ) found in fiber optics and wireless media.
- Williamson Labs has some amazing visualizations and descriptions of electronics (including physical layer stuff). His physical layer descriptions of modulation are very good.
- Interesting Networking People and Research Groups
- Tim Berners-Lee Inventor of the WWW.
- Vint Cerf Coinventor of TCP/IP.
- Douglas E. Comer influenced internet design and is a major promoter.
- Douglas Englebart Inventor of the Mouse, Multimedia and internet pioneer.
- Raj Jain is an expert in performance analysis and networks (both circuit and packet switched technology). He has tutorials for systems performance analysis and assorted lecture notes you might find helpful.
- Alberto Leon-Garcia Networking researcher at U Toronto.
- LBL - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Networks Research.
- Robert E. Kahn Coinventor of TCP-IP.
- Shivkumar Kalyanaraman who works on congestion control and traffic management.
- Srinivasan Keshav (now at ENSIM)
- Leonard Kleinrock considered by many to be the founder of the internet.
- Robert Metcalf the inventor of ethernet and founder of 3com.
- Jon Postel --- Famous (now deceased) prolific contributor and member of several internet standardization groups.
- W. Richard Stevens --- Famous (now deceased) writer about systems programming tools. Contributed to several IETF RFC's as well.
- A List of Courses in Parallelism, Networks, Distributed System --- A pointer to many links, sometimes additional explanations can help.
- Information Theory, Coding Theory and Signal Processing
- Nonuniform sampling in shift invariant spaces by Akram Aldroubi , gets around the Sample Theorem's requirement that uniform sampling frequency must be 1/2 of the fastest copmenent's frequency for for reconstruction, by relaxing the uniform sampling (so we get more accuracy from less data).
- Chris Hillman's Entropy on the Web site has some useful information including a collection of information theory sites.
- Johns Hopkins University's Signals Systems and Control, Great for learning about signal processing and control.
- Todd Rosenquist's Introduction to Error Correcting Codes An accessible description of error correcting codes.
- Related Topics:
- Anand's Hardware Guide Focused on the Intel 80x86, Pentium, P6, and compatibles primarily considering various leading edge processing technology for this market. Tends to give a qualitative overview.
- Fresh Meat Focused on tech industry news and the open source community (more developer oriented).
- Patrick Killelea's home page - One of O'Reilly's authors, specializing in web server and Java performance tuning.
- PC Webopaedia - Useful list of definitions to help with the jargon.
- Slash Dot Focused on tech industry news and the open source community (more tech news oriented).
- Tom's Hardware Guide Focused on the Intel 80x86, Pentium, P6, and compatibles primarily considering various leading edge processing technology for this market. Dr. Tom Pabst is a sharp guy that writes performance evaluations and gives interesting performance enhancement tips.
- Jonathan Shewchuk has some interesting (and also sarcastic) advice on scholarly writing .
- Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics It is back, bigger badder and better than ever!
- Entrepreneurial Resources
- 23 Myths of the Internet (See especially Myths 2, 4 and 5!)
- The Autodesk File This is a thorough history (including the memos) of Autodesk' Startup (now a Fortune 500 company!), by founder John "Random" Walker .
- Painless Software Management Archives by Joel Spolsky
- The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money By P.T. Barnum , courtesy of John "Random" Walker .
- Jamie Zawinski , his remarks show his really bad attitude about Design . He developed Lucid Emacs (now Xemacs ) and later developed Unix versions of Netscape and Mozilla. His resignation from AOL gives insight to the rise and fall of Netscape, now he has a nightclub/bar .
- General Research Advice
- You and Your Research by Richard Hamming a pioneer in data communication and a real leader, who said "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.".
- "Those Were the Days"? Or "Heroic Times Are Here Again"? , IRIS 1996 Address by Kristen Nygaard (the coinventor of object oriented programming). Good research can cause friction due to resource competition, I especially like his remark "Has anyone resented the content of your work recently? If not, what is your excuse?"
- Technology and Courage by Ivan Sutherland (a founder of the field of computer graphics), an excellent description of practical and emotional aspects of time management for researchers.