Explore network protocols, high-speed LANs, traffic management, routing, and quality of service through 15 chapter presentations and supporting textbook references. The collection progresses from transmission fundamentals to congestion control and advanced Internet services.
All 17 resources were verified on October 19, 2026. Original chapter numbers are retained for comparison with the teaching materials. These historical presentations include older networking technologies. PowerPoint files may download for opening in a presentation application.
Chapter Presentations
- 1Chapter 1: Communication Networks and Transmission FundamentalsPPT
Communication networks, digital and analog data, signaling, and transmission concepts.
- 2Chapter 2: Protocols and the TCP/IP SuitePPT
Layered protocol architecture, TCP/IP, the OSI reference model, and internetworking.
- 3Chapter 3: TCP and IPPPT
TCP and UDP transport, IP and IPv6, TCP segments, checksums, and protocol options.
- 4Chapter 4: Frame RelayPPT
Packet-switching principles, routing, X.25, Frame Relay architecture, user data transfer, and call control.
- 5Chapter 5: Asynchronous Transfer Mode — ATMPPT
ATM protocol architecture, logical connections, fixed-size cells, service categories, and the ATM Adaptation Layer.
- 6Chapter 6: High-Speed LANsPPT
Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and high-speed wireless LAN technologies.
- 7Chapter 10: Congestion Control in Data Networks and InternetsPPT
Network capacity, queueing, saturation, packet delay, and approaches to preventing congestion.
- 8Chapter 11: Link-Level Flow and Error ControlPPT
Link-control mechanisms, flow control, error control, and Automatic Repeat Request performance.
- 9Chapter 12: TCP Traffic ControlPPT
TCP flow and congestion control, sliding windows, credit allocation, and TCP performance over ATM.
- 10Chapter 13: Traffic and Congestion Control in ATM NetworksPPT
ATM traffic management, buffer overflow, real-time traffic, and service-specific congestion-control requirements.
- 11Chapter 14: Graph Theory and Least-Cost PathsPPT
Representing networks as graphs, vertices and edges, adjacency matrices, and shortest-path foundations for routing.
- 12Chapter 15: Interior Routing ProtocolsPPT
Routing within an internetwork, topology information, least-cost decisions, and fixed and adaptive routing concepts.
- 13Chapter 16: Exterior Routing Protocols and MulticastingPPT
Routing across autonomous systems, path-vector routing, Border Gateway Protocol, and multicast concepts.
- 14Chapter 17: Integrated and Differentiated ServicesPPT
Quality of service for elastic and real-time traffic, resource reservation, and traffic classification.
- 15Chapter 18: Protocols for Quality-of-Service SupportPPT
QoS requirements, resource reservation for unicast and multicast, soft state, and support for streaming traffic.
Textbook and Author References
- 16High-Speed Networks and Internets — Second EditionHTML
William Stallings’s companion website for the textbook, providing information and supporting resources for high-speed networking.
- 17William Stallings — Books and Technical ResourcesLINK
Author’s website featuring networking, computer architecture, operating systems, and security textbooks and supporting materials.