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P (predictive) frames
P-NNI (private NNI)
P-persistent CSMA
P2P (peer-to-peer) protocols
Packet length field
Packet loss
Packet queues and delay analysis
        birth-and-death process
        exercises
        in connectionless networks
        Little's theorem
        Markovian FIFO queueing systems
                M/M/1
                M/M/1/b
                M/M/8
                M/M/a/a
        networks of queues
                Burke's theorem
                Jackson's theorem
        non-Markovian models
        queueing disciplines
        self-similarity and batch-arrival models
        summary
Packet recirculation multicast algorithm
Packet scheduling
        deficit round- robin
        earliest deadline first
        fair queueing
        first in, first out
        priority queueing
        weighted fair queueing
Packet type field
Packet-by-packet switches
Packet-drop probability
Packet-mistreatment attacks
Packet-reservation multiple-access (PRMA) scheme
Packet-switched networks
        connection-oriented
        connectionless
        exercises
        Internet
        ISPs and internetwork components
        messages, packets, and frames in
        packet size in
        packet switching vs. circuit switching
        summary
Packets
        BGP
        encapsulation
        filtering
        fragmentation and reassembly 2nd 3rd 4th
        IGMP
        IP
        LANs
        MPLS
        OSPF
        packet-switched networks
        RIP
        RTCP
        RTP
        SCTP
        size
        SSH
        TCP
        TORA
Pad field
Pad length field
Padding field
        IP packets
        IPsec headers
        RTCP packets
        RTP packets
        SSH Packets
Paging channels
Paging in cellular networks
PAM (pulse amplitude modulation)
Parallel connections
        in link blocking
        in switching networks
Parallel nodes, Burke's theorem on
Parallel-plane switching networks
Parallel-to-serial multiplexing
Pareto distributions
Parity bits
Parity check methods
Path attributes field
Path loss
        in optical networks
        in wireless links
Path-discovery
Path-vector routing
Payload data chunks
Payload data field
Payload length field
Payload type field
        ATM cells
        RTP packets
Payloads in ATM cells 2nd
PCF (point-coordination function)
PCM (pulse code modulation)
PCR (peak cell rate)
PDF (probability density function) 2nd 3rd
PDUs (protocol data units) 2nd
Peak cell rate (PCR)
Peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols
Peer-to-peer networks
        optical
        wireless
        WMNs for
Per hop behaviors (PHBs)
Performance
        network management for
        switch fabrics
Period data in ICR
Permutations
        in AES
        in switching networks
Phase shift keying (PSK)
PHBs (per hop behaviors)
Photographs
Photonic switches
Physical congestion
Physical layer
        ATM
        IEEE 802.11
        TCP/IP protocol model
        WMNs
Physical medium in ATM
Pictures
PIFS (point IFS coordination function)
Pilot channels
PIM ( protocol-independent multicast) 2nd
Pin attacks
Ping of death
Pixels
Plug-and-play protocols
PMF (probability mass function) 2nd
Point IFS coordination function (PIFS)
Point-coordination function (PCF)
Point-to-point connections
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) 2nd
Poisoned-reverse rule
Poisoning attacks
Poisson distribution
Poisson random variables
Polar NRZ line coding
Policing
        in cell scheduling
        traffic 2nd
Pollaczek-Khinchin formula
Polling feature
Polynomial CRC interpretation
Port forwarding
Port numbers
        NAT
        RTP
Power ratio
Power save-poll (PS-Poll) frames
Power supplies for ad-hoc networks
PPM (pulse position modulation) 2nd
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) 2nd
PQ (priority queueing) schedulers
Preamble field
Predictive (P) frames
Preemption queuing systems
Preemptive priority queues
Prefixes in CIDR
Presentation layer
Priority queueing
        in VoIP
        non-preemptive
        preemptive
Priority queueing (PQ) schedulers
Privacy in CDMA
Private NNI (P-NNI)
PRMA (packet-reservation multiple-access) scheme
Proactive distributed routing
Probability
        blocking 2nd
        expected value and variance in
        Markov chains in
        random variables in
        stochastic processes
        TDM blocking
        TDM clipping
Probability density function (PDF) 2nd 3rd
Probability mass function (PMF) 2nd
Processing units
Protocol converters
Protocol data units (PDUs) 2nd
Protocol field
Protocol immunization
Protocol-independent multicast (PIM) 2nd
Protocols
        ad-hoc networks
        LANs
        network management
        optical networks
        sensor networks
        VoIP
Providing routers
Proxy servers
        SIP
        Web
Prune messages
Pseudonoise signals
PSK (phase shift keying)
Public-key encryption
        in SSH
        protocols
Pulse amplitude modulation (PAM)
Pulse code modulation (PCM)
Pulse position modulation (PPM) 2nd
Pulse stuffing
Pulse width modulation (PWM)
Pulse-type plots
Push (PSH) field