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Another turd from CMP
Review written by: J Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt From
Yet, amazingly, this book *could* have been adequate or even good. But that would require a different publisher, I suspect. OK, one step at a time:

First and foremost you need to know (the others here have already mentioned this) that this book is very basic. Now, that's no great sin to be basic, provided it's made clear to the potential buyer that it's a book on basics. So, the title should have been something like "A Pleasantly Light Introduction to Design of [etc., etc.]" OK, suppose that's done, would then the book be good? Nope. Why? Because it's written asswise, that's why. Btw, the author definitely knows his stuff, he's competent, that much *is* clear TO SOMEONE WHO ALREADY KNOWS THE SAME STUFF! (And therefore does not need this book.)

But a newbie -- who appears to be the only kind of reader who could benefit from this kind of book -- will not understand one page of it. The book is miserably under-edited: it's incoherent, rambling, randomly composed, revoltingly imprecise, laden with unexplicated industry jargon; the narrative jumps from topic to topic in the same paragraph; suddenly and randomly it changes from conceptual material to details of the lowest possible level totaly irrelevant in the previously assumed context, and so on and so forth. And it's not proofread (as the others here mentioned)... although, considering the rest of what's wrong with this book, I almost hesitate to mention this.

Yet, like I've said, the author is competent, and so with a sufficient editorial contribution a decent book COULD have been produced. The guy knows a lot, but he's not a writer: his knowledge should have been carefully and deliberately extracted from him and then structured, laid out, articulated in an appropriate manner by a competent technical writer. But hey, that's CMP we're dealing with here, not O'Reilly or Morgan Kaufmann, right? Think up a catchy title, print the crap on the cardboard-thickness paper (to make 200 pages look impressive), ship it to the stores, 49.95 a piece... 'nouf said.

(As an aside: It is interesting to contrast this failure of a book to the similar recent "Network Algorithmics", by Varghese, from MK. A big difference!)

all basic concepts
Review written by: Ke, Liqun From TW
Basic concepts to beginners or students.
It also lacks for implementation details.
Most of the them are not new to an experienced programmer.

solid basics but was it proof read?
Review written by: M. Lioy From SD, CA
I have been working on embedded communications for about 7 years now and must say - so far so good. Much of the information is this book is good for people that have not done this before or are new in their career. There is a lot of valuable information and this would work well as a primer. Having said that the proof reading is terrible - some stuff could have been caught by a spell checker! Some examples of errors that made it into publication:
Letters missing at the end of a sentence like "TCP is an example of a stateful protoco." (which is a direct quote from the book).
A sentence ending with two periods (yes '..'!).
And a white space character being swapped with the last character of the preceeding word making both the first and second word different; for example "cars how" becomes "car show".

Whoever was responsible for that should be fired! I am surprised the publisher is not embarrassed by the quality of the proof reading.

His friends?
Review written by: duke From America
It seems that all the reviewers are from India as are the authors. Probably their friends.
Based on that I would not purchase the book.
I gave it one star because they will not let you rate it less.

Consice Book for Embedded Comm Software Development
While reading the book by T.Sridhar, I felt that it was a refresher course in Embedded Communications System design. After an introduction to the communication world devices, the book details their software requirements. This is followed by structured methods for design and implementation of the various components of the communication software. This includes highlighting the choices for development along with typical issues that one needs to know. These are covered in chapters 3 through 7.

I liked Chapter 8 - Multi-Board Communications Software Design, which introduces real world system designs and software architecture for implementing such systems. The section on redundancy and fault tolerance is detailed with ladder diagrams explaining the exchanges between an active and standby cards in a redundant system.

A successful software development is achieved by following well-defined software development life cycle (SDLC). In Chapter 9, Sridhar walks through the phases of SDLC with a typical Layer 3 Switch development. The section on development and test tools is very informative.

With summary, references for further study and exercises at the end of each chapter this book is a very good textbook for students who plan to enter the world of communications software. For engineers who have been involved in embedded software development this book will be a nice refresher.