DATA AND COMPUTER
COMMUNICATIONS
EIGHTH EDITION
CHAPTERS 1 - 12
WILLIAM STALLINGS
Copyright 2007: William Stallings
© 2007 by William Stallings
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NOTICE
This manual contains solutions to all of the review questions and homework problems in Data and Computer Communications, Eighth
Edition. If you spot an error in a solution or in the wording of a problem, I would greatly appreciate it if you would forward the information via email to ws@shore.net. An errata sheet for this manual, if needed, is available at ftp://shell.shore.net/members/w/s/ws/S.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 2:
Chapter 3:
Chapter 4:
Chapter 5:
Chapter 6:
Chapter 7:
Chapter 8:
Chapter 9:
Chapter 10:
Chapter 11:
Chapter 12:
Protocol Architecture...................................................................................5
Data Transmission .......................................................................................9
Transmission Media...................................................................................13
Signal Encoding Techniques.....................................................................17
Digital Data Communications Techniques ............................................26
Data Link Control Protocols.....................................................................33
Multiplexing................................................................................................40
Spread Spectrum ........................................................................................45
Circuit Switching and Packet Switching.................................................48
Asynchronous Transfer