Textbooks: J. Kurose and K. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, Fifth Edition, Addison Wesley, 2009.

References:

Basic Computer Networking and TCP/IP topics (a partial list):

• A. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003.
• L. Peterson and B. S. Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Fifth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2012.
• R. Perlman, Interconnection , Second Edition, Addison Wesley, 2000.
• L. Garcia and I. Widjaja, Communication Networks, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2003.
• S. Keshav, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking, Addison Wesley, 1997.
• W. R. Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated Volume I, The Protocols, Addison Wesley, 1994 ( Errata ).

More Advanced TCP/IP and Related Topics (a partial list):

Implementation Principles

• G. Varghese, Network Algorithmics, Morgan Kaufmann, 2005.

    IPv6 and IP Routing

• M. Medhi and K. Ramasamy, Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols, and Architectures, Morgan Kaufmann, 2007.
• J. Stewart III, BGP4: Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet, Addison Wesley, 1999.
• C. Huitema, Routing in the Internet, Prentice Hall PTR, Second Edition, 1999.
• C. Huitema, IPv6: The New Internet Protocol, Second Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, 1997.

    Network Security:

• C. Kaufman, R. Perlman and M. Speciner, Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, Second Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002.
• D. B. Chapman and E. D. Zwicky, Building Internet Firewalls. Second Edition, O’Reilly & Associates, 2002.
• N. Doraswamy and D. Harkins, IPSec, Prentice Hall, 1999.
• B. Schneier, Applied Cryptography, Wiley, 1996.
• W. Cheswick and S. Bellovin, Firewalls and Internet Security, Addison Wesley, 1994.

    Group communication:

• B. Edwards, L. Giuliano, and B. Wright, Interdomain Multicast Routing, Addison Wesley, 2002.
• R. Wittmann and M. Zitterbart, Multicast Communication: Protocols and Applications , Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
• S. Paul, Multicasting on the Internet and Its Applications, Kluwer Academic Pub, 1998.
• T. A. Maufer, Deploying IP Multicast in the Enterprise, Prentice Hall PTR, 1998.

    Wireless and Mobile Internet:

• C. K. Toh, Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks: Protocols and Systems, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002.
• C. E. Perkins, Mobile IP: Design Principles and Practices, Addison Wesley, 1998.

    Multimedia communication, IP telephony, and QoS:

• O. Hersent, D. Curle and J. Petit, IP Telephony: Packet-Based Multimedia Communications Systems, Addison Wesley, 2000.
• B. S. Davie and Y. Rekhter, MPLS: Technology and Applications, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.
• G. Armitage, Quality of Service in IP Networks, Macmillan Technical Publishing, 2000
• J. Crowscroft, M. Handley, and I. Wakeman, Internetworking Multimedia, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
• K. Kilkki, Differentiated Services for the Internet, Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999.

    Web Procotols and Content Delivery Networks:

• D. Verma, Content Distribution Networks: An Engineering Approach, Wiley, 2002.
• M. Ravinovich and O. Spatscheck, Web Caching and Replication, Addison Wesley, 2002.
• B. Krishnamurthy and J. Rexford, Web Protocols and Practice, Addison Wesley, 2001.

 "Practical" Treatment of Various Topics

• T. Slattery and B. Burton, Advanced IP Routing in Cisco Networks, McGraw-Hill, 1999.
• G. Huston, ISP Survival Guide, Wiley, 1999.
• J. Roese, Switched LANs, McGraw-Hill, 1998.