Performance of Information and Communication Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. ATM Switch Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Paradigm Shift in Reliability Monitoring

      • M. Perry, P. Schroeder, D. Vuncannon, R. Dipper, T. Bull, A. Nilsson et al.

      Pages 3-13

   3. Performance analysis of multipath ATM switches under correlated and uncorrelated IBP traffic patterns

      • A.-L. Beylot, M. Becker

      Pages 14-25

   4. Performance of the Neural network controlled ATM switch

      • V. M. Skulic, Z. R. Petrovic

      Pages 26-37

   5. A new method for assessing the performances in ATM networks

      • Hoon Lee

      Pages 38-47

3. ATM Network Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Overload generated by signalling message flows in ATM networks

      • S. Székely, I. Moldován, Cs. Simon

      Pages 51-64

   3. Quantitative Evaluation of Scalability in Broadband Intelligent Networks

      • G. Karagiannis, V. F. Nicola, I. G. M. M. Niemegeers

      Pages 65-82

   4. Hop-by-hop option based flow-handling compared to other IP over ATM protocols

      • M. V. Loukola, J. O. Skyttä

      Pages 83-94

4. Traffic Characteristics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Peakedness Characterization in Teletraffic

      • S. Molnár, Gy. Miklós

      Pages 97-110

   3. On the combined effect of self-similarity and flow control in quality of service for transactional Internet services

      • Javier Aracil, Daniel Morató, Mikel Izal

      Pages 111-122

5. Multicast

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. An analysis of retransmission strategies for reliable multicast protocols

      • M. Schuba, P. Reichl

      Pages 125-136

   3. Scheduling Combined Unicast and Multicast Traffic in WDM Networks

      • Zeydy Ortiz, George N. Rouskas, Harry G. Perros

      Pages 137-150

6. Admission and Traffic Control

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. A family of measurement-based admission control algorithms

      • Z. Turányi, A. Veres, A. Oláh

      Pages 153-164

   3. Resource reservation in a connectionless network

      • A. Eriksson

      Pages 165-176

   4. Buffer analysis of the explicit rate congestion control mechanism for the ABR service category in ATM Networks

      • C. Blondia, O. Casals, B. Van Houdt

      Pages 177-188

During the last two decades we have seen a tremendous development within the computer and communication industry. The ever increasing density on silicon, the increasing transmission speeds on fiber based systems as well as twisted pairs, the revolutionary development in the wireless area and of course the Internet have all led to many opportunities for new service developments. It is interesting to note that the last time this conference was held three years ago, the Web really did not fully exist. We are now ready to face new interesting challenges. It is an utmost importance for the performance community to focus on the modeling and analysis of the Internet, the multimedia applications and the untethered applications that are coming to the forefront. There will be a need for new and better simulation methods, new analytical tools and a much better understanding of measurement techniques. "Performance of Information and Communication Systems", PICS'98, which takes place in Lund, Sweden, May 25-28, 1998, is the seventh conference in a series on performance of communication systems organized by IFIP TC 6, WG 6.3. In response to our call for papers, we have received nearly fifty submissions.

• ATM
• ISDN
• Internet
• communication
• communication system
• communication systems
• information
• integrated circuit
• modeling

• Department of Communication Systems, Lund University, Sweden

  Ulf Körner

• Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA

  Arne A. Nilsson

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