Review of "Data Communications Facilities, Networks, and Systems Design by Dixon R. Doll. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1978.
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 1979
Data Communications by Dixon R. Doll fulfills its primary objeective -to provide the reader with a comprehensive, pragmatic source of knowledge about data communications.This knowledge leads the reader to a detailed design methodology where various centralized and distributed network architectures may be quantitatively evaluated.The author carefully develops the ground work with definitions and explanations about what a communications network is and then integrates what is known about the technology into a meaningful procedure for analyzing existing networks and designing new ones.