Useful Networking Text Books

Background

• Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach.
  
• S. Keshav, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking.
  
• Jean Walrand, Communication Networks: A First Course.
  
• Andrew Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd ed. (Search for Tanenbaum on the Prentice Hall site).
• Dmitri Bertsekas and Robert Gallager, Data Networks, 2nd ed. (Search for Bertsekas on the Prentice Hall site).
  
• Jean Walrand and Pravin Varaiya, High-Performance Communication Networks.
  

Routing, High-Speed Networks

• Christian Huitema, Routing in the Internet. (Search for Huitema on the Prentice Hall site).
• Martha Steenstrup, Routing in Communication Networks. (Search for Steenstrup on the Prentice Hall site).
• Craig Partridge, Gigabit Networking.
  

The TCP/IP Protocol Suite

• W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols.
• W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation.
• W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Datagram Protocols.
• Douglas Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume 1: Principles, Protocols and Architecture, 3rd ed. (Search for Comer on the Prentice Hall site).
• Christian Huitema, IPv6: The New Internet Protocol, 2nd ed. (Search for Huitema on the Prentice Hall site).

Multicast

• Stephen Deering, Multicast Routing in a Datagram Internetwork, Part 1 Part 2 Part 3, Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University.
• Steven McCanne, Scalable Compression and Transmission of Internet Multicast Video, PhD thesis, UC Berkeley.
• Sanjoy Paul, Multicasting on the Internet and its Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. Search for it on Amazon using the keyword "Sanjoy Paul"

Wireless and Mobility

• J. Solomon, Mobile IP: The Internet Unplugged.
• Charlie Perkins, Mobile IP: Design Principles and Practices.
• Vijay Garg and Joseph Wilkes Wireless and Personal Communication Systems.
• Hari Balakrishnan, Reliable Data Transport over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, PhD thesis, UC Berkeley.

Performance, Modeling

• Raj Jain, The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis.
• Len Kleinrock, Queueing Theory.