The state-of-the-art of broadband communications - and its evolution - in both the public and private networks, is presented in this book. Particular consideration is given to the issues of switching, resource management, network control, communication services, testing, quality of service, traffic characteristics, traffic control and protocols. Invited papers further explore the fields of multimedia communication and traffic control, plus the introduction of ATM.
Preface. Committees. Referees. Application and Services. Invited
Speaker: Video coding and network support for multimedia services over ATM
networks (D. Beaumont). Provision of the broadband connectionless data bearer
service in N-ISDN (M. Wenas, M. Theys). LANs interconnection via ATM: an
experimental prototype (P. Camarda, P. Dello Russo, G. De Robertis, V.
Minafra, V. Signore). Translation of user's QoS parameters into ATM
performance requirements (D. Seret, J.-I. Jung). High time-resolution cell
loss measurements of mixed CBR and VBR traffic (N. Björkman, A.
Latour-Henner). On issues related to real-time applications support in the
Orbit Gbps ring (J. Chen, R. Guerin). Protocols and Testing. Traffic control
for best effort data communications in ATM networks: simulation comparison of
alternative schemes (G. Bagnoli, M. Listanti, R. Winkler). A new selective
repeat ARQ scheme for multicast communication (M. Aghadavoodi Jolfae, U.
Quernheim). Performance evaluation of frame relay based on the packet trains
model (M. Gagnaire, T. Uso). TRIBUNE: on the leading edge of broadband
testing (J. Scarr, G. Bosveld, A. Doelman, J. de Bie). Implementation of an
ATM network emulator (A. Alonso Hernan, L.A. Merayo Fernandez, L. Mola
Morales, H. Salas Asencios). Switching. A growable folded ATM switching
architecture (A. Jajszczyk). Performance analysis of an ATM switch based on a
three-stage Clos interconnection network under non-uniform traffic patterns
(A.-L. Beylot, I. Kohlenberg, M. Becker). Performance evaluation of the ATM
ring-based switching architecture (T. Meuser, J. Wolsky). Traffic. Invited
Speaker: Performance modelling and traffic engineering for broadband
communication networks (P. Kuhn). A comparison of models for VBR video
traffic sources in B-ISDN (O. Rose, M. Frater). Indices of dispersion and ATM
traffic characterization (F. Guillemin, A. Dupuis). Analysis of usage
parameter control algorithms for ATM networks (H. Clausen, P. Ryberg Jensen).
Dimensioning a traffic control device in an ATM network (C. Rosenberg, G.
Hebuterne). Resource Management and Network Control. An evaluation of
burst-level bandwidth reservation methods in WAN environments (M. Yoshida, C.
Ikeda, H. Suzuki). Bandwidth allocation by pricing in ATM networks (J.
Murphy, L. Murphy). A congestion control framework for broadband ISDN using
selective window control (K.-Q. Liao, L. Mason). The control of network
resources for complex B-ISDN services (A. Paglialunga, L. Ronchetti, L.
Faglia, S. Minzer). The management of a pan-european ATM network - the X
interface (T. Barker, A. Macht. J. Johansen, I. Rodriguez, J. Rodrigues, J.V.
Ruymbeke).
