Exploring the increase of performance of networked equipment made possible by new communication supports, this publication should be of particular interest to engineers, computer scientists, EDP managers , R & D professionals, and other researchers, manufacturers, and operators involved in the telecommunications industry.The examination of developments in the field is focused on three main areas. The first is the multimedia communication systems and, more specifically, the distributed multimedia aspects. The second is the enhanced functions and facilities for the network and transport layers to support the changing application environment and to exploit the new networks already, or soon to be, available. The third area is the search for efficient implementations and for high performance systems.
Preface. Program Committee. List of Reviewers. MAC Layer Enhancements.
(Chair: H. van As). DQDB for time constrained services (G. Mercankosk, Z.L.
Budrikis, A. Cantoni). A new reservation scheme for CRMA high-speed networks
(N.-F. Huang, C.-C. Chiou, C.-S. Wu). A host interface architecture for
high-speed networks (P.A. Steenkiste, B.D. Zill, H.T. Kung, S.J. Schlick, J.
Hughes, B. Kowalski, J. Mullaney). Flow and Rate Control. (Chair: M.
Johnson). Dynamic bandwidth allocation and access control of virtual paths in
ATM broadband networks (I.W. Habib, T.N. Saadawi). Congestion control -
effective bandwidth allocation in ATM networks (E.D. Sykas, K.M. Vlakos, K.P.
Tsoukatos, E.N. Protonotarios). A high speed data link control protocol (A.N.
Tantawy, H. Meleis). Parallel Implementation and Transport Protocols. (Chair:
G. Pujolle). Parallel TCP/IP for multiprocessor workstations (K. Maly, S.
Khanna, R. Mukkamala, C.M. Overstreet, R. Yerraballi, E.C. Foudriat, B.
Madan). TCP/IP on the parallel protocol engine (E. Rütsche, M. Kaiserswerth).
A high-speed protocol parallel implementation: design and analysis (T.F. La
Porta, M. Schwartz). Multimedia Communication Systems. (Chair: R.
Popescu-Zeletin). Orchestration services for distributed multimedia
synchronisation (A. Campbell, G. Coulson, F. Garcia, D. Hutchison). Towards
an integrated quality of service architecture (QOS-A) for distributed
multimedia communications (H. Leopold, A. Campbell, D. Hutchison, N. Singer).
JVTOS - a reference model for a new multimedia service (G. Dermler, K.
Froitzheim). Experiences with the Heidelberg multimedia communication system:
multicast, rate enforcement and performance (A. Cramer, M. Farber, B.
McKellar, R. Steinmetz). QoS Semantics and Management. (Chair: M.
Zitterbart). Client-network interactions in quality of service communication
environments (D. Ferrari, J. Ramaekers, G. Ventre). The OSI 95
connection-mode transport service: the enhanced QoS (A. Danthine, Y.
Baguette, G. Leduc, L. Leonard). QoS: from definition to management (N.
Simoni, S. Znaty). Evaluation of High Speed Communication Systems. (Chair: O.
Spaniol). ISO OSI FTAM and high speed file transfer: no contradiction (M.
Bever, U. Schäffer, C. Schottmüller). Analysis of a delay based congestion
avoidance algorithm (W. Dabbous). Performance issues in designing network
interfaces: a case study (K.K. Ramakrishnan). High Performance Protocol
Mechanisms. (Chair: C. Partridge). Multicast provision for high speed
networks (A.G. Waters). Transport layer multicast: an enchancement for XTP
bucket error control (H. Santoso, S. Fdida). A performance study of the XTP
error control (A.A. Nilsson, M. Lee). Protocol Implementation. (Chair: S.
Tohmé). ADAPTIVE an object-oriented framework for flexible and adaptive
communication protocols (D.F. Box, D.C. Schmidt, T. Suda). HIPOD: an
architecture for high-speed protocol implementations (A.S. Krishnakumar, J.G.
Kneuer, A.J. Shaw). Parallel transport system design (T. Braun, M.
Zitterbart). Network Interconnection. (Chair: A. Casaca). A rate-based
congestion avoidance scheme for interconnected DQDB metropolitan area
networks (N.-F. Huang, C.-S. Wu, C.-C. Chiou). Interconnection of LANs/802.6
Customer Premises Equipments (CPEs) via SMDS on top of ATM: a case
description (W. Rozenblad, B. Li, R. Peschi). Architectures for interworking
between B-ISDN and frame relay (J. Vozmediano, J. Berrocal, J. Vinyes).
Author Index.