Computer Networking:
a Top-Down Approach (8th ed.) :
Notes of "Select" Lectures
Course Information
Computer Networks
Professor Jim Kurose
COMPSCI 453
College of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts
Class textbook:
Computer Networking: a Top-Down Approach (8th ed.) J.F. Kurose, K.W. Ross, Pearson, 2020
J.F. Kurose, K.W. Ross, Pearson, 2020
http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross
Related Resources|
Book Edition |
8th ed. en-us |
7th ed. zh-cn |
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Book home |
gaia.cs.umass.edu |
HZCOURSE.COM |
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Book PDF |
LibGen |
用户1496968452581's Juejin post |
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PowerPoint |
gaia.cs.umass.edu |
URL path exists but is not given here |
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Solutions etc. |
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Online lectures |
gias.cs.umass.edu bilibili |
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High quality reading notes |
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GuoYi's Github post of English PowerPoints notes Jscroop's cnblogs posts of the English version notes |
Foreword
Learning Motives
With my second attempt at the postgraduate entrance exam doomed, I started to study myself subjects of computer science that might be useful for all of my possible future circumstances –to eventually receive an interview invitation from a school and accept it, to prepare for a beginner developer's interview, or to fail to be enrolled this year and make a third try. I decided to study myself computer networking first, by watching online lectures and reading slides of the book Computer Networking. However, I found it too challenging to acquire knowledge without a translator. Meanwhile, the absence of terminology translation does not align with real-life study and work. And what is most annoying, knowledge in my mind is not well-organized. To cope with issues above, I believe it is wise to write down, rearrange or even simply copy and paste key points. Time limited, these series of notes will only cover core topics (concepts and principles, e.g.) such as the overview, important layers and protocols.
How I Write
• Content of the series of notes is based on (from mostly to least):
• Part of Professor Jim Kurose's lecture videos and PowerPoints which I believe is of importance.
• The original book mainly for chapter/section numbering. Besides, I use it for figure/table screenshots, definition/mechanism checks and knowledge comprehension.
• The Chinese edition of the book for terminology referencing.
• Others' notes.
• Microsoft Word operations.
• Share the document via "Post to blog".
• Convert numbers to text to have them correctly displayed; resize all pictures for better quality.
• Publish it to cnblogs as draft.
• cnblogs operations.
• Set titles, tags, alias URL, etc. for posts.
• Copy the fragment needed of the draft to the corresponding post.
