Computer Networking

• Link collections
• Internet history
• Research Groups
• Standards Organizations
• Print Archives
• Journals
• Wired Technologies
• Wireless Technologies
• Conferences
• Network Security
• Network Simulation Tools
• Network Visualization
• Vendors
• Protocol Specification
• Miscellaneous links
• Home networking

Indices

• EINet Galaxy Network Protocols info
• Yahoo Networks and Datacom index

Internet History

• ACM SIGCOMM History Resources
• THINK Protocols -

Research Groups

• ICSI Center for Internet Research (ICIR) - a research organization associated with the International Computer Science Institute at U. Cal. Berkeley
• Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
• Network Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - home of tcpdump, papers on TCP congestion control, etc.
• Research Unit in Networking, Universite de Liege
• U of Twente Network Management server

Standards Organizations

• American National Standards Institute
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
• IEEE Computer Society Standards Activities
  • IEEE 802 standards (free electronic access)
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• International Standards Organization (ISO) Online

Print Archives

• IETF RFC Archive (The definitive source)

Journals

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking or you can go through the IEEE portal
• netWorker - ACM journal on "the craft of network computing"
• IEEE Internet Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Communications

Wired Technologies

• The Internet
• IEEE 802.17 Resilent Packet Ring Working Group
• Ethernet
  • U. Texas Ethernet Page
  • Dave Hawley's isoEthernet Page (Last updated 1996)
• Fast Ethernet
  • Dan Kegel's Fast Ethernet Page
  • 100BaseVG-AnyLAN
    • UNH-IOL 100BaseVG-AnyLAN Consortium
    • Richard's Unofficial 100BaseVG-AnyLAN FAQ
• Gigabit Ethernet
  • IEEE 802.3 Committee's Gigabit Ethernet site
  • Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
• Firewire (IEEE 1394)
  • 1394 Trade Association
  • Papers on firewire - from Skipstone, Inc.
• ISDN
  • Dan Kegel's ISDN Page
  • Adam Hersch's ISDN page (StarWeb)

Wireless technologies

• IEEE 802.11 Working Group
  • IEEE 802.11 standard
• The Official Bluetooth Wireless Info Site
• Bluetooth Resource Center - supported by Palo Wireless

Conferences

• USITS - Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
• SIGCOMM
• Web-related Conferences

Network Management

• SNMPlink.org
• SimpleWeb
• OpenNMS - an open-source management suite. Somewhere in there, there's a Java snmp library called JoeSNMP.
• RFC 1157

Network Simulation Tools

• Links to network simulation tools - maintained by Kevin Fall, UC-Berkeley
• x-kernel (Peterson/Davie, University of Arizona)
  • x-kernel Home Page
• ns -- Lawrence Berkeley Labs Network Simulator
• REAL (S. Keshav)

• Mapnet (CAIDA)

Vendors

• Asante
• 3Com
• Novell Inc.

Protocol Specification

• ASN.1
  • ASN.1 Consortium
  • International Telecommunications Union ASN.1 Project
  • Free On-line Dictionary of Computing entry
• LOTOS Formal Description Technique (RUN-Liege)

Miscellaneous

• The Internet
• Netperf Home page (HP network performance benchmark)
• Network Address Translation
  • Overview of Network Address Translation (NAT) in Windows XP - really about XP APIs for dealing with NAT, but has a nice overview of how it works.
  • RFC 1631: The IP Network Address Translator (NAT)

Last modified: Fri Jan 11 11:03:24 Eastern Standard Time 2008