SOLUTIONS MANUAL
DATA AND COMPUTER
COMMUNICATIONS EIGHTH EDITION CHAPTERS 1 - 12
WILLIAM STALLINGS
Copyright 2007: William Stallings
© 2007 by William Stallings All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, or posted on the Internet, without permission in writing from the author. Selected solutions may be shared with students, provided that they are not available, unsecured, on the Web.
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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. W.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...