Interconnections By Perlman Radia

by Radia Perlman

Radia Perlmans Interconnections is recognized as a leading text on networking theory and practice It provides authoritative and comprehensive information on general networking concepts routing algorithms and protocols addressing and the mechanics of bridges routers switches and hubs This Second Edition is expanded and updated to cover the newest developments in the field including advances in switching and bridge technology VLANs Fast Ethernet DHCP ATM and IPv6 Additional new topics include IPX AppleTalk and DECnet You will gain a deeper understanding of the range of solutions possible and find valuable information on protocols for which documentation is not readily available elsewhere Written by the inventor of many of the algorithms that make switching and routing robust and efficient Interconnections Second Edition offers an experts insight into how and why networks operate as they do Perlman describes all of the major networking algorithms and protocols in use today in clear and concise terms while exploring the engineering trade offs that the different approaches represent The book contains extensive coverage of such topics as The spanning tree algori

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About the author

A software designer and network engineer, Radia Perlman earned a place in internet history for creating the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) that governs how information is sent between servers. Perlman earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD from MIT while doing research for course credits through the university’s artificial intelligence laboratory. There, in 1976, she created TORTIS, a child-friendly version of the LOGO programming language, which children as young as three could use to control a robot. She wrote the algorithm for STP in less than a week, capping her work by writing a playful poem to describe her invention. Over the course of her career, working at Novell, Digital, Sun, Intel, and EMC, she continued to fine-tune and eventually replace STP with improved systems that would allow larger networks of computers to communicate more smoothly. She holds over 100 patents, and as of 2024 has written two books, Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches (1999) and Internetworking Protocols and Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World (2015), and co-written Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World (2022). As of 2024, she has won eleven awards, including induction to the National Inventors Hall of Fame (2016) and an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology.