This book takes a practical approach to describing the various technologies that come together to create advanced network and communications processing. These technology areas include hardware processing, protocols, network stacks, operating systems, virtualization, and application level processing.In addition, material is included on networking software services, architecture and partitioning, porting and integrating, security, and software development for networking.
It includes case studies on:
Techniques for mapping an application to a network processor
Networking for consumer applications
Industrial wireless LAN (WLAN) networking
Enterprise networking applications
MIMO parallelization and implementation on heterogeneous GPGPU architectures
Using hardware/ software co-design methods for implementing efficient small cell solutions
Software development techniques for embedded networking applications
Mobile, cloud computing and data security
Harnessing the power of multicore architecture
Developing a Network Interface Controller (NIC)
Low power networking strategies
With this book, you will learn:
The different uses of computer networks
How to program and configure network hardware, including the use of hubs, switches and routers
The varied uses of network software, including networking operating systems
The structure and features of each layer of the ISO/OSI Reference Model, including physical, datalink, network and application protocols
How to make use of the software functionality of each layer of the TCP/IP Reference Model compared with the ISO/OSI Reference Model
How to implement major software components of computer networks including virtualization and offload technologies
Valuable information on computer network security issues
How to describe network media and data transmissions
How to explain network design and describe the various network topologies
The software features of NetWare and Linux servers
Software requirements for implementing wide area networks.
Provides full coverage of networking topics, strategies and implementation for embedded components and systems, including the various topologies, algorithms and protocols necessary to embedded network development
Numerous code examples illustrate and reinforce the concepts discussed
Multiple case studies demonstrate techniques across a number of application areas. "