Broadband Communications, 2000 Convergence of Network Technologies IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series, Vol. 30

Broadband communications is widely recognized as one of the key technologies for building the next generation global network infrastructure to support ever-increasing multimedia applications. This book contains a collection of timely leading-edge research papers that address some of the important issues of providing such a broadband network infrastructure.
Broadband Communications represents the selected proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Broadband Communications, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Hong Kong in November 1999.
The book is organized according to the eighteen technical sessions of the conference. The topics covered include internet services, traffic modeling, internet traffic control, performance evaluation, billing, pricing, admission policy, mobile network protocols, TCP/IP performance, mobile network performance, bandwidth allocation, switching systems, traffic flow control, routing, congestion and admission control, multicast protocols, network management, and quality of service. It will serve as an essential reference for computer scientists and practitioners.

Preface. Broadband Communications '99. Reviewers. Plenary Session. Session 1: Internet Services. Session 2: Traffic Modeling. Session 3: Internet Traffic Control. Session 4: Performance Evaluation I. Session 5: Billing, Pricing and Admission Policy. Session 6: Performance Evaluation II. Session 7: Mobile Network Protocols. Session 8: TCP/IP Performance Evaluation. Session 9: Mobile Network Performance. Session 10: Bandwidth Allocation. Session 11: Switching Systems. Session 12: Traffic Flow Control. Session 13: Routing. Session 14: Congestion and Admission Control. Session 15: Multicast Protocols. Session 16: Traffic Control. Session 17: Network Management. Session 18: Quality of Service. Index of Contributors. Keyword Index.

Danny H.K. Tsang is an associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. Paul K. Kühn is a professor at the University of Stuttgart - IND, Germany.