Data Communications and their Performance

One ATM Multiplexing.- 1 An exact model for the multiplexing of worst case traffic sources.- 2 On per-session performance of an ATM multiplexer with heterogeneous speed links.- 3 Effect of the on-period distribution on the performance of an ATM multiplexer fed by on/off sources: an analytical study.- Two High-Performance Protocols.- 4 General bypass architecture for high-performance distributed applications.- 5 High performance protocol architecture.- 6 Enabling high bandwidth applications by high-performance multicast transfer protocol processing.- Three Switching.- 7 Performance of an ATM LAN switch with back-pressure function.- 8 A study of switch models for the scalable coherent interface.- 9 Optimization of logically rearrangeable multihop lightwave networks with genetic algorithms.- Four Queueing Models.- 10 Closed form performance distributions of a discrete time GIg/D/1/N queue with correlated traffic.- 11 Buffer requirements in ATM related queueing models with bursty traffic: an alternative approach.- 12 Discrete time analysis of a finite capacity queue with an ‘all or nothing policy’ to reduce burst loss.- 13 Study of the impact of temporal/spatial correlations on a tagged traffic stream.- Five Source Modelling.- 14 On the prediction of the stochastic behavior of time series by use of neural networks — performance analysis and results.- 15 The entropy of cell streams as a traffic descriptor in ATM networks.- Six Traffic Management 1.- 16 Analytic models for separable statistical multiplexing.- 17 On the effective bandwidth of arbitrary on/off sources.- 18 The impact of the reactive functions on the LAN interconnection by a frame-relay net.- Seven Traffic Management 2.- 19 Dimensioning the continuous state leaky bucket for geometric arrivals.- 20 On-linebandwidth and buffer allocation for ATM.- 21 ATM traffic analysis and control for ABR service provisioning.- Eight Performance and Optimization of ATM Networks.- 22 Performance evaluation of frame relay, SMDS and best efforts services in ATM networks.- 23 The statistically correct approach to distributed simulation of ATM networks.- 24 An error monitor algorithm for ATM signalling links.- 25 Virtual path assignment problem in ATM networks.- 26 Enhancing ATM network performance by optimizing the virtual network configuration.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.