Beej's Guide to Network Programming
Using Internet Sockets
http://www.retran.com/beej/index.html
Berkeley sockets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets
Sockets Tutorial
http://www.linuxhowtos.org/C_C++/socket.htm
ieee
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/contents.html