1 Introduction
1．1 Enterprise integrated automation system
1．1．1 A layered architecture
1．1．2 Field control system
1．1．3 Process control system
1．1．4 Manufacturing execution system
1．1．5 Enterprise resource planning
1．2 Overview of computer networks
1．2．1 Terminal-oriented computer network
1．2．2 Packet switching network
1．2．3 The function and application of computer network
1．2．4 Open standardized network
1．3 Overview of industrial fieldbus
1．3．1 Control network and field bus
1．3．2 Industrial data communication
1．3．3 Early bus technology
1．3．4 New structure of control system
1．3．5 The advantage of the control system to the network
Problems

2 Data Communication Foundation
2．1 Basic data communication theory
2．1．1 Basic concepts
2．1．2 Fourier analysis
2．1．3 Bandwidth-limited signals
2．1．4 The maximum data rate of a channel
2．2 Signal transmission modes
2．2．1 Band transmission
2．2．2 Serial and parallel transmission
2．2．3 Asynchronous and synchronous transmission
2．2．4 Simplex， half-duplex and full-duplex transmission
2．3 Channel
2．3．1 Channel classification
2．3．2 Main technical indicators of the channel
2．3．3 Modulation
2．4 Data coding
2．4．1 Digital data coding
2．4．2 Analog data coding
2．4．3 Coding techniques
2．4．4 Trunks and multiplexing
2．5 Transmission medium
2．5．1 Magnetic media
2．5．2 Twisted pair
2．5．3 Coaxial Cable
2．5．4 Fiber optics
2．6 Wireless transmission
2．6．1 Radio transmission
2．6．2 Microwave transmission
Problems

3 Computer Network Foundation
3．1 Overview
3．2 Network topology
3．2．1 Star type
3．2．2 Tree type
3．2．3 Bus type
3．2．4 Ring type
3．2．5 Reticulation type
3．3 Computer network hardware
3．3．1 The classification of computer network
3．3．2 Classification by transmission technology
3．3．3 Classification by network scale
3．3．4 Wireless networks
3．4 Computer network software
3．4．1 The necessity of protocol and hierarchies
3．4．2 Five-layer protocol architecture
3．4．3 Architecture of TCP/IP
3．4．4 Entities， protocols， services， and service access points
3．5 The composition of the Internet
3．5．1 The edge part of the Internet
3．5．2 The core part of the Internet
3．6 The indexes of computer networks
3．6．1 Rate
3．6．2 Bandwidth
3．6．3 Throughput
3．6．4 Delay
3．6．5 Bandwidth delay product
Problems

4 The Data Link Layer
4．1 Data link layer design issues
4．1．1 Services provided to the network layer
4．1．2 Framing
4．1．3 Error control
4．1．4 Flow control
4．2 Error detection and correction
4．2．1 Methods to deal with errors
4．2．2 Parity check
4．2．3 Cyclic redundancy check
4．3 Elementary data link protocols
4．3．1 An unrestricted simplex protocol
4．3．2 A simplex stop-and-wait protocol
4．3．3 A simplex protocol for a noisy channel
4．4 Sliding window protocols
4．4．1 A one bit sliding window protocol
4．4．2 Go-back-N ARQ
4．4．3 Selective Repeat ARQ
4．5 Example data link protocols
4．5．1 HDLC——high-level data link control
4．5．2 The data link layer in the Internet
Problems

5 The Medium Access Control Sublayer
5．1 The channel allocation problem
5．1．1 Static and dynamic channel allocation
5．1．2 LAN technology
5．2 Multiple access protocols
5．2．1 ALOHA
5．2．2 Carrier sense multiple access protocols
5．3 IEEE standard 802 for tANs and MANs
5．3．1 IEEE standard 802．3 and ethernet
5．3．2 IEEE standard 802．5 ： token ring
5．3．3 IEEE standard 802．4 ： token bus
5．3．4 IEEE standard 802．2 ： logical link control
5．4 Bridge
5．4．1 Repeater
5．4．2 Hub
5．4．3 Bridges
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