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by Kutub Thakur (Author), Abu Kamruzzaman (Author), Al-Sakib Khan Pathan (Author)
This book, divided into three parts, describes the detailed concepts of Digital Communication, Security, and Privacy protocols.
In Part One, the first chapter provides a deeper perspective on communications, while Chapters 2 and 3 focus on analog and digital communication networks.
Part Two then delves into various Digital Communication protocols. Beginning first in Chapter 4 with the major Telephony protocols, Chapter 5 then focuses on important Data Communication protocols, leading onto the discussion of Wireless and Cellular Communication protocols in Chapter 6 and Fiber Optic Data Transmission protocols in Chapter 7.
Part Three covers Digital Security and Privacy protocols including Network Security protocols (Chapter 8), Wireless Security protocols (Chapter 9), and Server Level Security systems (Chapter 10), while the final chapter covers various aspects of privacy related to communication protocols and associated issues.
This book will offer great benefits to graduate and undergraduate students, researchers, and practitioners. It could be used as a textbook as well as reference material for these topics. All the authors are well-qualified in this domain. The authors have an approved textbook that is used in some US, Saudi, and Bangladeshi universities since Fall 2020 semester - although used in online lectures/classes due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Author Biography
Kutub Thakur is the founder Director of NJCU Center for cybersecurity, Assistant professor and Director of Cybersecurity Program at New Jersey City University. He worked for various private and public entities such as United Nations, New York University, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital, ConEdison, City University of New York, and Metropolitan Transport Authority. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science with specialization in cybersecurity from the Pace University, New York, M.S in Engineering Electrical and Computer Control systems from University of Wisconsin, B.S and A.A.S in Computer Systems Technology from the City University of New York (CUNY). He reviewed for many prestigious journals and published several papers in reputable journals and conferences. His research interests include digital forensics, network security, machine learning, IoT security, privacy, and user behavior. Dr. Thakur is currently serving/served as the program chair for many conferences and workshop. He is also currently supervising (also, supervised) many graduate and doctoral students for their theses, proposals, and dissertations in the field of cybersecurity.
Abu S. Kamruzzaman is an assistant professor (adjunct) teaching undergraduate and graduate levels computing courses in various campuses in NYC since 2001. His current full-time IT title Enterprise Application Developer where he supports MS SQL based Data warehouse and Microsoft .Net Web Enterprise applications infrastructure. Abu maintained multiple IT careers in multiple public entities in NYC since 2001. He has over 20 years of professional experiences building and leading projects for Mobile applications, Enterprise applications, web applications, databases, and Data Analytics. He is proficient working with both Windows and UNIX environments enterprise systems. He received PhD degree in Computer Science (CS) concentration Artificial Intelligence from Pace University, NY, USA and MA in CIS from Brooklyn College/CUNY, USA and BS in CS from Binghamton University/SUNY, USA and AAS in CS from LaGuardia C. College. Abu built apps frequently used by 500K+ active users and 20M+ historic users. He also built dashboards and analysis as a Senior Business Intelligence Architect in CUNYSmart team building the data warehouse for the City University of New York (CUNY) that enrolls over 0.5M students per semester. Abu has multiple publications and journal including IEEE. He has presented and chaired in multiple conferences nationally and internationally. Abu research interest include Data Science, Cyber Security, Machine Learning, Quantum Computing, and Cloud Computing. He is the recipient of multiple awards for his extra ordinary accomplishments. Abu also served in the dissertation committees for CS PhD students and a faculty of DPS doctoral program at Pace University.
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan is a Professor at the CSE department, United International University (UIU), Bangladesh. He received Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (2009) from Kyung Hee University, South Korea and B.Sc. in Computer Science and Information Technology (2003) from Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh. He has served as a Chair and Committee Member in numerous top-ranked conferences and in editorial roles of several renowned journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
