Broadband Communications: Convergence of Network Technologies

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Development and Regulatory System Reform of Telecommunication Industry in China....Pages 3-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Buffer and Bandwidth Allocation for Diffserv Classes....Pages 17-26
RED+ Gateways for Identification and Discrimination of Unfriendly Best-Effort Flows in the Internet....Pages 27-38
On the Performance of Differentiated Services for IP Internetworks....Pages 39-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Parameters of Fractional Brownian Traffic with Geometrical Sampling....Pages 51-62
MPEG Video Traffic Models: Sequentially Modulated Self-Similar Processes....Pages 63-72
A Practical Approach for Multimedia Traffic Modeling....Pages 73-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Integration of a Traffic Conditioner for Differentiated Services in Endsystems Via Feedback-Loops....Pages 85-92
A Scheduler for Delay-Based Service Differentiation Among AF Classes....Pages 93-102
RSSP: RSVP Session Set-Up Protocol for RSVP-Incapable Multimedia Applications....Pages 103-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
A New Self-Similar Traffic Model and Its Applications in Telecommunication Networks....Pages 119-128
Biased Initial Distribution for Simulation of Queues with a Superposition of Periodic and Bursty Sources....Pages 129-138
Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Algorithms for Bluetooth....Pages 139-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
The Economics and Competitive Pricing of Connectivity at Internet Exchanges....Pages 153-162
Policy-Based Billing Architecture for Internet Differentiated Services....Pages 163-174
Teletraffic Issues in High Speed Circuit Switched Data Service over GSM....Pages 175-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Stochastic Features of VBR Video Traffic and Queueing Working Conditions: A Simulation Study Using Chaotic Map Generator....Pages 187-196
Effects of Variations in the Available Bandwidth on the Performance of the GFR Service....Pages 197-208
Performance Evaluation of the Conformance Definition for the ABR Service in ATM Networks....Pages 209-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Impacts of Power Control on Outage Probability in CDMA Wireless Systems....Pages 225-234
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Home Agent Redundancy and Load Balancing in Mobile IPv6....Pages 235-244
Verification and Analysis of an Improved Authentication Protocol for Mobile IP....Pages 245-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
IP over ATM - Performance Evaluation, Experiments and Results....Pages 259-271
Broadband Satellite Network: TCP/IP Performance Analysis....Pages 273-282
A Cut-Off Priority Flow Classification Policy for Data-Driven IP/ATM Switching Systems....Pages 283-292
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
On Bandwidth Reservation Policies in Broadband Wireless Networks....Pages 295-304
Performance Analysis of Cellular Systems with Dynamic Channel Assignment....Pages 305-314
An Emergency Token Based Multiple Access Control Scheme for Wireless ATM Networks....Pages 315-326
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Evaluation of Allocation Policies on Hybrid Fiber-Coax Broadband Access Networks for Contention-Type Traffic....Pages 329-338
Just-In-Time Optical Burst Switching for Multiwavelength Networks....Pages 339-352
Constrained Max-Min Bandwidth Allocation for the Available Bit Rate ATM Service....Pages 353-366
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Integration of IP-Packet/ATM/Circuit-Switching Traffic and Optimum Conditions of the Relative Cost Function for Typical Traffic Modes....Pages 369-379
Performance Analysis of Speeded-Up High-Speed Packet Switches....Pages 381-394
Interworking Support in a Multi-Discipline Switch....Pages 395-404
An ATM Switch Control Interface for Quality of Service and Reliability....Pages 405-417
Front Matter....Pages 419-419
The Virtual Bandwidth Based ER Marking Algorithms for Flow Control in ATM Networks....Pages 421-433
Convergence of Asynchronous Optimization Flow Control....Pages 435-444
Performance Analysis of Rate-Based Flow Control under a Variable Number of Sources....Pages 445-454
Front Matter....Pages 455-455
Multicast Routing in ATM Networks....Pages 457-468
The Flooding Mechanism of the PNNI Routing Protocol....Pages 469-480
Front Matter....Pages 455-455
A Model for Evaluating the Impact of Aggregated Routing Information on Network Performance....Pages 481-492
Front Matter....Pages 493-493
Call Admission Control for Preemptive and Partially Blocking Service Integration Schemes in ATM Networks....Pages 495-508
Predictive Resource Allocation for Real Time Video Traffic in Broadband Satellite Networks....Pages 509-519
Adaptive Neural Congestion Controller for ATM Network with Heavy Traffic....Pages 521-532
Front Matter....Pages 533-533
Performance Comparison of Branch Point Algorithms for Multicast ABR Flow Control....Pages 535-548
A QoS-Based Resource Reservation Protocol for Priority-Differentiated Delay-Bounded Multicast....Pages 549-560
Multirate Resource Sharing for Unicast and Multicast Connections....Pages 561-570
Front Matter....Pages 571-571
On the PCR Policing of an Arbitrary Stream Passing through a Private ATM Network before Reaching the Public UNI....Pages 573-585
Management and Control of Distributed Multimedia Devices and Streams through Object-Oriented Middleware....Pages 587-596
Traffic Control and Resource Management Using a Multi-Agent System....Pages 597-606
Front Matter....Pages 607-607
The Adaptable TMN Management Architecture with Other Object-Based Management Requests Platforms....Pages 609-619
Local Reconfiguration of ATM Virtual Path Connection Networks....Pages 621-630
An Algorithm for Broadband Network Dimensioning....Pages 631-642
Front Matter....Pages 643-643
Mobile RSVP....Pages 645-658
The Effect of ARQ Block Size on the Efficiency of a Wireless Access Link Using Adaptive Modulation....Pages 659-666
“Super-Fast” Estimation of Cell Loss Rate and Cell Delay Probability of ATM Switches....Pages 667-675
Back Matter....Pages 677-684