Performance and Management of Complex Communication Networks : IFIP TC6 / WG6.3 & WG7.3 International Conference on the Performance and Management of Complex Communication Networks (PMCCN’97) 17–21 November 1997, Tsukuba Science City, Japan

With the proliferation of ISDN and mobile communication systems, modern commu­ nication networks are becoming larger-scale, higher-speed, and more complex than ever before. Therefore, besides hardware development, extensive research on system technolo­ gies with respect to the performance evaluation and management is indispensable for the proper design, development and operation of future complex communication networks. The International Conference on the Performance and Management of Complex Com­ munication Systems (PMCCN '97) was held from November 17 to 21, 1997, at Tsukuba Science City, Japan. This was the fifth international conference on the performance as­ pects of communication networks held every three years in Japan (1985 in Tokyo; 1988, 1991, and 1994 in Kyoto). The conference was sponsored by the International Federa­ tion of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group (WG) 6.3 Performance of Com­ munication Systems, and 7.3 Computer System Modelling, University of Tsukuba, Kyoto University, and The Telecommunication Advancement Foundation (TAF). Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Mobile communication traffic analysis on a road systems model....Pages 3-20 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Deriving the tail distribution of the buffer contents in a statistical multiplexer with general heterogeneous on/off sources....Pages 23-42 Tail Probability of a Gaussian Fluid Queue under Finite Measurement of Input Processes....Pages 43-58 Delay and overflow of discrete-time priority queue with burst arrivals and partial buffer sharing....Pages 59-74 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 Measuring ATM Traffic Cell-by-Cell: Experiences and Preliminary Findings from BAGNet....Pages 77-96 A discrete-time ATM traffic model with long range dependence characteristics....Pages 97-110 Bottlenecks on the way towards fractal characterization of network traffic: Estimation and interpretation of the Hurst parameter....Pages 111-134 Front Matter....Pages 135-135 A Workload Characterization Methodology for WWW Applications....Pages 137-153 Performance Study of Shared-Nothing Parallel Transaction Processing Systems....Pages 154-172 Front Matter....Pages 173-173 High-speed free-space laser communication....Pages 175-190 A survey of wireless ATM MAC protocols....Pages 191-210 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 Two-Class Priority Queueing System with Time-Limited Schedule....Pages 213-232 Waiting time distributions in a two-queue model with mixed exhaustive and gated-type K -limited services....Pages 233-252 Gated time-limited polling systems....Pages 253-274 Front Matter....Pages 275-275 Realizing quality of service guarantees in multiservice networks....Pages 277-293 Measurement-Based CAC for Video Applications Using SBR Service....Pages 294-313 A source independent traffic model for ATM networks....Pages 314-333 Resource Allocations Protocols Impact on MPEG Sequence Quality....Pages 334-352 Front Matter....Pages 353-353 The Round-Robin Service Discipline in Discrete Time for Phase-Type Distributed Packet-Lengths....Pages 355-374 An M/M/c Queue with Interdependent Arrival and Service Processes....Pages 375-389 Back Matter....Pages 390-392 With the proliferation of ISDN and mobile communication systems, modern communication networks are becoming larger-scale, higher-speed, and more complex than ever before. Therefore, besides hardware development, extensive research on system technologies with respect to performance evaluation and management is indispensable for the proper design, development and operation of emerging communication networks. This book presents the latest research on theory, simulation and implementation in this field.