Performance and QoS of Next Generation Networking

I. Invited Paper.- Towards Networks with Cognitive Packets.- II. Internet I.- Users’ WWW Access Statistics Measured at Proxy Servers: Case Study for Cache Hit Ratio and Response Time.- Characterisation of End-to-End Performance for Web Based File Server Repositories.- III. Internet II.- Analysis of World Wide Web traffic by nonparametric estimation techniques.- Design and Evaluation of New Communication Control Method to Support the Quality Change of Communication Line.- TCP over a multi-state Markovian path.- ISP’s Internet Backbone Augmentation using Virtual Link Configuration in Link-state Routing.- IV. Mobile Telecommunication I.- A Local Anchor Scheme for Mobile IP.- A Distributed Channel Allocation Strategy based on A Threshold Scheme in Mobile Cellular Networks.- V. Mobile Telecommunication II.- The Feasibility Study on a Spectrum Overlaid System of N-CDMA and W-CDMA.- Mobility and Traffic Analysis for WCDMA Networks.- VI. QoS Control.- On the Tradeoff Between Effectiveness and Scalability of Measurement-based Admission Control.- Overload Control Mechanisms for Web Servers.- Performance Comparison of Different Class-and-Drop Treatment of Data and Acknowledgements in DiffServ IP Networks.- Providing QoS Guarantee for Individual Video Stream via Stochastic Admission Control.- VII. Invited Tutorial.- Stochastic Petri Nets and Their Applications.- VIII. Performance Analysis.- Dynamic Routing and Wavelength Assignment Using First Policy Iteration, Inhomogeneous Traffic Case.- Performability Analysis of TDMA Cellular Systems Based on Composite and Hierarchical Markov Chain Models.- The MM CPP/GE/c/L G-Queue at equilibrium.- Performance Analysis of the IEEE 1394 Serial Bus.- Author Index.