Broadband communications : the future of telecommunications ; IFIP TC6/WG6.2 Fourth International Conference on Broadband Communications (BC'98) 1st-3rd April 1998, Stuttgart, Germany

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 New applications of broadband networks: A vision based on the state of the art in networking....Pages 3-10 Fast address lookup for Internet routers....Pages 11-22 Design and evaluation of an advance reservation protocol on top of RSVP....Pages 23-40 Buffer Reservation for TCP over ATM Networks....Pages 41-52 Front Matter....Pages 53-53 Signalling/IN Server architecture for a broadband SSP....Pages 171-182 A signaling based approach to broadband service control. Application to access signaling....Pages 183-194 Communication Support for Knowledge-intensive Services....Pages 195-206 A study of simple usage-based charging schemes for broadband networks....Pages 209-220 A game theoretic framework for rate allocation and charging of Available Bit Rate (ABR) connections in ATM networks....Pages 221-233 Multipath FEC Scheme for the ATM Adaptation Layer AAL5....Pages 234-245 Redundancy Domains — a novel Approach for Survivable Communication Networks....Pages 249-260 Impact of time division duplexing on delay variation in slotted access systems....Pages 57-68 A Lab demonstration of a SuperPON optical access network....Pages 69-80 Request Contention and Request Polling for the Upstream Media Access Control in ATM Access Networks....Pages 81-92 Performance analysis of ATM transmission over a DS-CDMA channel....Pages 95-106 An adaptive random-reservation MAC protocol to guarantee QoS for ATM over satellite....Pages 107-118 A collision resolution algorithm for ad-hoc wireless LANs....Pages 119-130 Air Interface of an ATM Radio Access Network....Pages 133-144 Signalling for Handover in a Broadband Cellular ATM System....Pages 145-156 A New Channel Reservation and Prediction Concept in Cellular Communication Systems....Pages 157-168 Front Matter....Pages 53-53 Time analysis of fault propagation in SDH-based ATM networks....Pages 261-273 Resource management for service accommodation in optical networks....Pages 274-285 Design and Implementation of an ATM Cell Controller for FR/ATM Interworking System....Pages 289-299 High Speed TCP/IP Experiment over International ATM Test Bed....Pages 300-311 Performance measurements in local and wide area ATM networks....Pages 312-323 Front Matter....Pages 325-325 QoS characterization of the ATM Block Transfer mode with Instantaneous Transmission....Pages 487-498 Dynamic rate adaption for efficient use of frame relay network....Pages 499-510 Stop & Go ABR: A Simple Algorithm for the Implementation of Best Effort Services in ATM LANs....Pages 511-522 Can Equivalent Capacity CAC Deal with Worst Case Traffic in GCRA—Policed ATM Networks?....Pages 329-340 Traffic Management in an ATM Multi-Service Switch for Workgroups....Pages 341-355 CAC investigation for video and data....Pages 356-367 Active Multicasting for Heterogeneous Groups....Pages 449-460 Call admission and routing in ATM networks based on virtual path separation....Pages 461-472 Blocking of dynamic multicast connections in a single link....Pages 473-483 The MAPS control paradigm: using chaotic maps to control telecoms networks....Pages 371-382 Indicators for the assessment of congestion in TCP over ATM-UBR....Pages 383-394 FATHOC — a rate control algorithm for HFC networks....Pages 395-406 Decentralized Control Scheme For Large-Scale ATM Networks....Pages 409-422 Feasibility of a Software-based ATM cell-level scheduler with advanced shaping....Pages 423-434 Sample-path Analysis of Queueing Systems with Leaky Bucket....Pages 435-446 Front Matter....Pages 325-325 A Locally Stationary Semi-Markovian Representation for Ethernet LAN Traffic Data....Pages 525-537 Bidimensional fluid model for VBR MPEG video traffic....Pages 538-549 Superposition of Markov Sources and Long Range Dependence....Pages 550-561 Multi-layer modelling of a multimedia application....Pages 565-576 Multiplexing periodic sources in a tree network of ATM multiplexers....Pages 577-588 Dimensioning of ATM Networks with Finite Buffers under Call-Level and Cell-Level QoS Constraints....Pages 589-600 Back Matter....Pages 601-605 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 measurements in 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. The book presents the state-of-the-art in both the theory and practice of advanced communication technology. The book addresses the scientific and engineering aspects of future broadband communication technologies, including aspects of traffic (source) characterization, test and measurement, routing and multicasting, protocols, network management, traffic control and performance evaluation.