Advanced Data Communications and Networks provides a comprehensive and practical treatment of rapidly evolving areas . The text is divided into seven main sections and appendices:
"General data compression
"Video, images and sound
"Error coding and encryption
"TCP/IP and the Internet
"Network operating systems
"LANs/WANs
"Cable

Introduction. Compression techniques. Huffman/Lempel-Ziv compression methods. Image compression (GIF/TIFF/PCX). Image compression (JPEG). Video signals. Motion video compression. Speech and audio signals. Audio signals. Audio compression (MPEG-Audio and Dolby AC-3). Error coding principles. Error coding (detection). Error coding (correction). Data encryption principles. Data encryption. TCP/IP. TCP/IP II. Electronic mail. The World Wide Web. HTTP. HTML (introduction). HTML (tables, forms and helpers). Java/Javascript. Windows NT. Netware. UNIX. Networking elements. Ethernet. Token ring. FDDI. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). Modems. ASCII coding. Cable Specifications. RLE program. SNR for PCM. RFC standards. UNIX network startup files. Ethernet monitoring system. Encryption. Digital line group codes. Common abbreviations.