High Performance Networking is a state-of-the-art book that deals with issues relating to the fast-paced evolution of public, corporate and residential networks. It focuses on the practical and experimental aspects of high performance networks and introduces novel approaches and concepts aimed at improving the performance, usability, interoperability and scalability of such systems. Among others, the topics covered include:

• Java applets and applications;
• distributed virtual environments;
• new internet streaming protocols;
• web telecollaboration tools;
• Internet, Intranet;
• real-time services like multimedia;
• quality of service;
• mobility. High Performance Networking comprises the proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on High Performance Networking, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and was held at Vienna Univrsity of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in September 1998.
  High Performance Networking is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course on high performance networking, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

Autorentext

Harmen R. van As is full-professor at the Vienna University of Technology and head of the Institute of Communication Networks established in 1996. He has served in technical and organizing committees of many international conferences, and chairs the IFIP Working Group 6.10 on Photonic Networking.

Zusammenfassung
High Performance Networking comprises the proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on High Performance Networking, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and was held at Vienna Univrsity of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in September 1998.

Inhalt
One: Broadband Internet Access.- Broadband access to the Internet an overview.- Performance of multiple access protocols in geo-stationary satellite systems.- A new HFC architecture using return path multiplexing.- Two: Multimedia Multicast.- End-to-end reliable multicast transport protocol adaptation for floor control and other conference control functions requirements.- An architecture for conference-support using secured multicast.- SELDOM: A simple and efficient low-cost, delay-bounded, online multicasting.- Three: Scalable Multicast.- A scalable and robust feedback mechanism for adaptive multimedia multicast systems.- A scalable protocol for reporting periodically using multicast IP.- A scalability scheme for the real-time control protocol.- Four: ATM Infrastructure.- Enhanced convolution approach for connection admission control in ATM networks.- Fast rerouting in ATM networks: Pro-active search protocol.- Impact of VC merging on buffer requirements in ATM networks.- A comparison of ATM stream merging techniques.- Integrating parallel computing applications in an ATM scenario.- Five: Next generation internet.- Differentiated services: A new approach for quality of service in the internet.- Toward a hierarchical mobile Ipv6.- Active libraries: A flexible strategy for active networks.- Six: QoS in the Internet.- End-to-End QoS provisioning through resource adaptation.- A dynamic sender-initiated reservation protocol for the internet.- USD: Scalable bandwidth allocation for the internet.- A connectionless approach to providing QoS in IP networks.- Seven: IP/ATM Internetworks.- An implementation of a gateway for hierarchically encoded video across ATM and IP networks.- Trading off network utilisation and delays by performing shaping on VC ATM connections carryingLAN Traffic.- Packet-based approach to ATM cell policing, and their effects on internet traffic.- Optimising bandwidth reservation in IP/ATM internetworks using the guaranteed delay service.- Eight: Internet Applications.- Orchestra!: An internet service for distributed musical sessions and collaborative music development and engineering.- High-performance online presentation of complex 3D scenes.- On the optimal placement of web proxies in the internet: The linear topology.- The network computer for an open services market.- Nine: Internet Networking.- Integrated Services: IP Networking Applications.- The interaction of the TCP flow control procedure in end nodes on the proposed flow control mechanism for use in IEEE 802.3 switches.- On end-to-end congestion avoidance for TCP/IP.- Ten: Flow and Congestion Control.- A rate based back-pressure flow control for the internet.- TCP-BFA: Buffer fill avoidance.- Motivation of an end-to-end regulation of bandwidth in intra-networks: The ROBIN concept.- Nondeterministic classifier performance evaluation for flow based IP switching.- Eleven: QoS Routing and Scheduling.- Internet QoS routing using the Bellman-Ford algorithm.- Feedback controlled scheduling for QoS in communication systems.- Scheduling algorithms for advance resource reservation.- Achieving 90% throughput in a flow-oriented input-queued switching router system.- Service logic mobility over intelligent broadband networks.