COMPUTER NETWORK : BOOKS & Lecture Notes.

Syllabus :

ISO/OSI stack, LAN technologies (Ethernet, Token ring), Flow and error control techniques, Routing algorithms, Congestion control, TCP/UDP and sockets, IP(v4), Application layer protocols (icmp, dns, smtp, pop, ftp, http); Basic concepts of hubs, switches, gateways, and routers. Network security basic concepts of public key and private key cryptography, digital signature, firewalls.

There are following Books of computer network with free download for GATE :

• Computer Network - By Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Fourth Edition ( with solution ).

• Introduction to Data Communication and Networking - By Behrouz A. Forouzan, Fourth Edition ( with solution ).

• Data and Computer Communication - By William Stallings, Fifth Edition.

• Computer Networking - A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet -- By James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross.

There is following important, excellent & very useful lecture notes with free download :

• Data Communication - Hand Book.

@ ONLINE READING :

• Computer Networks - By Natalia Olifer & Victor Olifer, Wiley-India Edition.