One Traffic Models and Characterization. - 1 An analytical description of the packet trains model for LAN traffic characterization. - 2 VBR video in ATM without frame buffering: influence of a periodic correlation function on QoS parameters. - 3 Bursty traffic modelling and multiplexing performance analysis in ATM networks: a three moment approach. - Two Traffic Control. - 4 Performance analysis of fast reservation protocols for ATM networks. - 5 Characterising the worst traffic profile passing through an ATM-UNI. - 6 Discrete-time models for connection admission control (CAC) in ATM. - 7 Simulation of traffic shaping algorithms in ATM networks. - Three Routing and Optimization. - 8 Stochastic allocation of virtual paths to ATM links. - 9 Semi-centralized routing algorithms for 3-stage Clos networks. - 10 High level B-ISDN/ATM traffic management in real time. - 11 Conservation laws for dynamic routing in multi-path networks. - Four Methodology and ATM Switching. - 12 An application of stochastic ordering to the analysis of the push-out mechanism. - 13 A performance evaluation of a 3-stage ATM Clos switch under bursty traffic. - 14 Bounds on the effects of correlation in a stable MMPP/MMPP/1/N queue: an asymptotic approach. - 15 Accurate approximation of the cell loss ratio in ATM buffers with multiple servers. - 16 Exact results for an ATM multiplexer with infinite queue loaded with batch Markovian arrivals. - Five Queueing Network Models. - 17 D-BMAP models for performance evaluation of ATM networks. - 18 Diffusion models to study nonstationary traffic and cell loss in ATM networks. - 19 A product form approximation for arbitrary discrete time networks of shared buffer queues. - 20 Response time distributions in packet-switched Banyan networks. - Six Quality of Service. - 21 Estimating QoS parameters for ATM traffic using its entropy. - 22 A novel dynamic priority scheduling method for multiple classes of ATM traffic in an ATM statistical multiplexer. - 23 FEC and multi-layer video coding for ATM networks. - 24 Single node and end-to-end buffer control in real time. - 25 Performance space of a GI/G/1 queueing system under a percentile goal criterion. - 26 End-to-end guaranteed QoS with statistical multiplexing for ATM networks. - Seven Network Management. - 27 Methods for performance monitoring and traffic measurements at cell level in ATM networks. - 28 The design of survivable ATM networks. - Eight Performance Modelling Studies. - 29 Performance study on ATM adaption layer. - 30 Performance evaluation of threshold-based ATM cell scheduling policies under Markov modulated Poisson traffic using stochastic Petri nets. - 31 Modelling the reassembly buffer in a connectionless server. - 32 High performance ATM terminals: design and evaluation. - Index of contributors. - Keyword index. Language: English