Broadband Communications, 1998 The future of telecommunications IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series

New Services such as for Internet data and multimedia applications, have caused a fast growing demand for broadband communications. The fundamental technologies for the integration of these services have been developed in the last decade: optical communications, photonic switching, high speed local area networks, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), ISDN and B-ISDN, Internet packet networks and mobile communications. The development was possible through the dynamic progress in communication and computer technologies and through worldwide standardization activities within ITU-T, the ATM Forum, the IETF, IEEE, ANSI, ETSI and other bodies. These developments have been supported by research and field trial programmes. Past developments, such as about LAN, Internet or ISDN networking technologies, have shown that it needs a time span of 10 years for a new technology from its research stage to its full application. Broadband Communications is just at its onset for full deployment. It will have a dramatic effect not only on the networking situation but on the whole development of information technology throughout our social and economic life, which is expressed by the conference theme ,The Future of Telecommunications". The Broadband Communications conference series of IFIP WG 6. 2 addresses the fundamental technical and theoretical problems related with these technologies. BC '98 is the fourth meeting in a series on conferences being held in Stuttgart, Germany. The previous confernces were held in Estoril, Portugal, in 1992, in Paris, France, in 1994, and in Montreal, Canada, in 1996.

1 New applications of broadband networks: a vision based on the state of the art in networking.- 2 Fast address look-up for internez routers.- 3 Design and evaluation of an advance reservation protocol on top of RSVP.- 4 Buffer reservation for TCP over ATM networks.- 5 Impact of time division duplexing on delay variation in slotted access systems.- 6 A lab demonstration of a SuperPON optical access network.- 7 Request contention and request polling for the upstream media access control in ATM networks.- 8 Performance analysis of ATM transmission over a DS-CDMA channel.- 9 An adaptive random-reservation MAC protocol to guarantee QoS for ATM over satellite.- 10 A collision resolution algorithm for ad-hoc wireless LANs.- 11 Air interface of an ATM radio access network.- 12 Signalling for handover in a broadband cellular ATM system.- 13 A new channel reservation and prediction concept in cellular communications systems.- 14 Signalling/IN server architecture for a broadband SSP.- 15 A signaling based approach to broadband service control application to access signaling.- 16 Communication support for knowledge-intensive services.- 17 A study of simple usage-based charging schemes for broadband networks.- 18 A game theoretic framework for rate allocation and charging of available bit rate (ABR) connections in ATM networks.- 19 Multipath FEC scheme for the ATM adaptation layer AAL5.- 20 Redundancy domains — a novel approach for survivable communication networks.- 21 Time analysis of fault propagation in SDH-based ATM networks.- 22 Resource management for service accommodation in optical networks.- 23 Design and implementation of an ATM cell controller for FR/ATM interworking system.- 24 High speed TCP/IP experiment over international ATM test bed.- 25 Performance measurementsin local and wide area ATM networks.- 26 Can an equivalent capacity CAC deal with worst case traffic in GCRA-policed ATM networks?.- 27 Traffic management in an ATM multi-service switch for workgroups.- 28 CAC investigation for video and data.- 29 The MAPS control paradigm: using chaotic maps to control telecoms networks.- 30 Indicators for the assessment of congestion in TCP over ATM-UBR.- 31 FATHOC — a rate control algorithm for HFC networks.- 32 Decentralized control scheme for large-scale ATM networks.- 33 Feasibility of a software-based ATM cell-level scheduler with advanced shaping.- 34 Sample-path analysis of queueing systems with leaky bucket.- 35 Active multicasting for heterogeneous groups.- 36 Call admission and routing in ATM networks based on virtual path separation.- 37 Blocking of dynamic multicast connections in a single link.- 38 QoS characterization of the ATM block transfer mode with instantaneous transmission.- 39 Dynamic rate adaptation for efficient use of frame relay networks.- 40 Stop & go ABR: a simple algorithm for the implementation of best effort services in ATM LANs.- 41 A locally stationary semi-Markovian representation for ethernet LAN traffic data.- 42 Bidimensional fluid model for VBR MPEG video traffic.- 43 Superposition of Markov sources and long range dependence.- 44 Multi-layer modelling of a multimedia application.- 45 Multiplexing periodic sources in a tree network of ATM multiplexers.- 46 Dimensioning of ATM networks with finite buffers under call-level and cell-level QoS constraints.- Index of Contributors.- Keyword index.

Paul K. Kühn is a professor at the University of Stuttgart - IND, Germany.