The advent of information highways has recently been heralded as the next generation of communication systems. It is widely agreed that these highways will be based on ATM networks. However, despite the tremendous progress in the development of ATM technology, there are still problems to resolve, such as bandwidth allocation, congestion control and quality of service. This volume addresses some of these difficulties and hopes to stimulate further action towards solving them. The papers are organized in seven main secitons: performance of ATM switch architectures; quality of service; performance analysis of ATM multiplexers; performance issues in ATM networks; congestion control; ATM switch architectures; and methodologies for ATM modelling.
Part 1 Performance analysis of ATM switch architectures: performance
analysis of the finite-buffered "turn-back" multistage interconnection
networks, T.I. Lin and L. Kleinrock; approximate analysis of an ATM switching
system with bursty arrivals and finite capacity, Y.F. Jou et al; analytic
performance study of ATM switching elements with on/off sources and
correlated routing, H. Bruneel and S. Wittevrongel; approximate analysis of a
discrete-time polling system with bursty arrivals, A.O. Zaghloul and H.G.
Perros. Part 2 Quality of service: an analysis of trunk reservation and grade
of service balancing mechanisms in multiservice broadband networks, P.
Tran-Gia and F. Hubner; local allocation of end-to-end quality-of-service in
high-speed networks, R. Nagarajan et al; feasibility of performance
objectives in ATM network nodes with MMPP arrival processes, Y.-H. Jeon and
I. Viniotis. Part 3 Performance analysis of ATM multiplexers: asymptotic
analysis of statistical multiplexing of variable bit rate and constant bit
rate sources, J. Garcia and O. Casals; performance evaluation of ATM
multiplexing schemes for bursty traffic sources in lossy ATM networks, M. De
Sanctis and R. Costabile; voice and data integration at an ATM multiplexer,
T. Atmaca and J.W. Mark. Part 4 Performance issues in ATM networks: ATM
connectionless server - performance evaluation, G. Boiocchi et al; transport
of VBR MPEG video in ATM networks, P. Pancha and M. El Zarki; evaluation of
the string mode protocol in an ATM network, C.N. Lorenzen and L. Dittmann; on
routing in ATM networks, S. Gupta et al. Part 5 Congestion control: a traffic
control framework for high speed data transmission, J.W. Roberts et al; burst
reduction properties of the token bank in ATM networks, Z. Liu and D.
Towsley; performance and simulation of leaky buckets for ATM network access
control, M. Lemercier; load control procedures for intelligent networks, U.
Korner and C. Nyberg; cell delay variation specification in ATM networks, A.
Gravey and P. Boyer; congestion avoidance in an interconnection network -
approximate analysis, J.W. Mark et al. Part 6 ATM switch architectures: BSS -
buss structure switching, architecture and performance analysis, C. Fayet et
al; a simple ATM switching architecture for broad-band-ISDN and its
performance, A. Tubtiang et al. Part 7 Methodologies for ATM modelling: on
the use of numerical methods for ATM models, W.J. Stewart; a generalized
SBBP/G/I queue and its application to ATM networks, F. Ishizaki et al; the
M/G/I/ processor-sharing queue with bulk arrivals, K.M. Rege and B. Sengupta;
performance evaluation of buffer policies with stochastic automata networks,
J.M. Fourneau et al approximate analysis of ATM networks with two
loss-priotity classes, R.O. Onvural; GGeo-type approximations for general
discrete-time queuing systems, D.D. Kouvatsos and N. Tabet-Aouel.
