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Simulation Tools

• Network Simulators:
• OPNET and OPNET projects undertaken by UB
• Network Simulator : NS-2
• Glomosim 2.0
• NS-2 Tutorial-1
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Books on Networking

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James F. F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet", 2nd edition, Pearson Education, July 2002, ISBN: 0201976994. 784pp.
• Douglas E. Comer, "Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume 1: Principles, Protocols, and Architectures, Fourth Edition 4TH ", Prentice Hall, Feb 2000, ISBN: 0130183806
• Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, " DNS and BIND " , O'Reilly & Associates, May 2001
• Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford, " Practical UNIX and Internet Security ", O'Reilly & Associates, October 1995
• Leonard Kleinrock, " Queueing Systems: Theory, Vol. 1 ", Wiley, John & Sons, January 1975
• Leonard Kleinrock (Editor) " Queueing Systems Volume 2: Computer Applications ", Wiley, John & Sons, April 1976
• W. Richard Stevens and Gary R. Wright, "The TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols", Addison Wesley Longman, Dec 1993, ISBN: 0201633469
• W. Richard Stevens and Gary R. Wright, "The TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation", Addison Wesley Longman, Jan 1995, ISBN: 020163354X
• Douglas E. Comer, Computer Networks and Internets
• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (Online Book)

News and Mailing Lists (Strongly Recommended)

• newsgroup: sunyab.cse.589
• Course Blog: cse4589.wordpress.com

Some General Networking Links

• The Early History of Data Networks
• Russ Haynal's ISP Page (Lists Internet Backbones)
• A Big Picture of the Internet
• Cisco's Technology Information
• ATM Forum
• Some class notes & videos
  　

(Network) Programming in the Unix Environment

• Dr. Bill's notes on "Big endian" vs. "Little endian"
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
• BSD Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer
• Unix signals and process groups
• Introductory BSD®4.4 Inter-Process Communication
• Programming in C (with Unix discussions)
  
• CVS -- Concurrent Version System

MAC Sublayer and Data link Layer

• Introduction to Ethernet
• Charles Spurgeon's Ethernet Web Site
• Bridging Basics
• Introduction to LAN Protocols
• Ethernet Technologies
• Point to point (PPP) protocol
• Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) and Derivatives

Network Layer

• Border Gateway Protocol
• Internet Protocols
<>Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP)

ATM

• ATM-Internetworking
• ATM Switching
• The ATM Forum

TCP

• Papers on TCP modelling and related topics
• TCP Friendly Website
• "TCP and Explicit Congestion Notification", Floyd, S., AC M Computer Communication Review, V. 24,N. 5, October 1994, p. 10 -23.
• "TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options", Mathis, M., Mahdav i, J., Floyd, S., and Romanow, A., RFC 2018, April 1996.
• V. Jacobson and M. Karels, "congestion avoidance and control", Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'88 (Palo Alto, CA), pp.314-329, August 1988
• TCP Congestion Control (RFC 2581)

Network Security

• Pretty Good Privacy
• PGP Timeline
• Why do you need PGP?
• Open SSL (for SSL and TSL implementations and related issues)
• Apache SSL
• Kerberos: The network authentication protocol
• IP Spoofing Demystified
• TCP Session Hijacking (from Internet Security Systems)
• CERT® Advisory CA-1995-01 IP Spoofing Attacks and Hijacked Terminal Connections
• TCP Session Hijacking
• Some TCP/IP vulnerability
• IP spoofing, security, session hijacking

Multimedia Networking

• Henning Schulzrinne's RTP site
• Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) | RFC 2326
• ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) | RFC 2250
• A comparison of Internet audio compression formats
• MPEG.org (with a lot of info on video formats)

Misc

• Winsock Development Information
• Email headers
• The end of SMTP? (from cnet news)

Access Network Technologies

• DSL vs Cable Modem
• ADSL Forum
• Cable Modem Tutorial
• List of almost all ISPs
• The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000
• Digital Subscriber Line Basics