New developments in the framework of high-speed networking and computing are presented in this volume. The book focuses on new mechanisms, protocols, services and architectures derived from the need of emerging distributed multimedia applications, as well as from the requirements of the new communication environments. The contributions show that topics of most interest are moving to higher layers and application purposes, although some transmission and interconnection issues are still important.
Part 1 High-performance LANs and MANs: HMR - an ATM-based medium access
procotol for gigabit ring networks, B. Chun Jeon and D. Young Kim; R-net - a
round robin medium access protocol for MANs, A. Bissonauth and A.E. Kamal;
behaviour of the metaring gigabit/s network under multipriority traffic, M.
Gagnaire. Part 2 MAC performance in high-speed network: performance
comparison of media access protocols in the Gbit/s range, A. Grebe and C.
Bach; RAIN (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Networks); expanding existing
networks to support multitraffic performance, E.C. Foudriat et al. Part 3
Routing issues in high-performance networks: an evaluation of routing and
admission control algorithms for real-time traffic in packet-switched
network, S. Rampal et al; addressing and routing in heterogeneous data
networks, J.W. Atwood et al; a comparison of gigabit router architectures,
O.G. Koufopavlou et al; automatic network clustering for fast path selection,
C. Galand and P. Scotton. Part 4 Enhanced transport and synchronization:
performance analysis of window-based flow control using TCP/P - effect of
high bandwidth-delay products and random loss, T.V. Lakshman and U. Madhow;
dynamic quality and congestion control for integrated video and data
communications, Y. Ishibashi and S. Tasaka; multipeer transport services for
multimedia applications, L. Henckel; implementing intra-stream
synchronization by means of conditional dependency expressions, I.F. Rust da
Costa Carmo and J.P. Courtiat. Part 5 Quality of service and architecture:
flow management in a quality of service architecture, A.T. Campbell et al;
quality of service negotiation for orchestrated, distributed multimedia
presentation, S.V. Raghavan et al; simplified QoS model for multimedia
protocols over ATM, S. Damaskos and A. Gavras; broadband network service -
architecture for high speed multimedia networking, G.A. Marin et al. Part 6
Resource management: an optimal resource allocation policy for ATM networks
supporting time-critical traffic, K. Chen et al; fast connection
establishment in the DTM gigabit network, P. Lindgren and C. Bohm. Part 7
Traffic analysis and performance: a source model for connectionless traffic
in B-ISDN, M. Ajmone et al; analysis of traffic measurements in the VISTA net
gigabit networking testbed, H.G. Perros et al; analysis of a statistical
multiplexer with generalized periodic sources, I. Cidon et al. Part 8
Internetworking: performance of interconnecting FDDI network through ATM when
managing video traffic, D. Andres et a; a rate control mechanism for LAN/MAN
interworking systems, L. Orozco-Barbosa and N. Hirzalla. Part 9 Multimedia
communication systems: a distributed environment to support cooperative
software development, A.F. Marcos; multimedia mail services, M. Szymanski et
al. Part 10 Performance tools: FDDI performance evaluation based on LOTOS
formal description technique, A. Martinez et al. (Part contents).
