The communication of information is a crucial point in the development of our future way of life. We are living more and more in an information society. Perhaps the more obvious applications are those devoted to distributed cooperative multimedia systems. In both industry and academia, people are involved in such projects. HPN'95 is an international forum where both communities can find a place for dialogues and interchanges. The conference is targeted to the new mechanisms, protocols, services and architectures derived from the need of emerging applications, as well as from the requirements of new communication environments. This workshop belongs to the series started in 1987 in Aachen (Germany), followed by Liege (Belgium) in 1988, Berlin (Germany) in 1991, Liege (Belgium) again in 1992 and Grenoble (France) in 1994. HPN'95 is the sixth event of the series sponsored by IFIP WG 6.4 and will be held at the Arxiduc Lluis Salvador building on the campus of the University of the Balearic Islands in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) from September 13 to 15.

Zusammenfassung
This workshop belongs to the series started in 1987 in Aachen (Germany), followed by Liege (Belgium) in 1988, Berlin (Germany) in 1991, Liege (Belgium) again in 1992 and Grenoble (France) in 1994.

Inhalt
1 An end-to-end mechanism for jitter control in multimedia services.- 2 Protocol-, operating system- and ATM layer-limitations in practical performance analysis of UDP/IP and TCP/IP over ATM.- 3 Evaluation of multicast routing algorithms for real-time communication on high-speed networks.- 4 ATM as a memory interconnect in a desk area network.- 5 Flow control in ATM based local area networks.- 6 Wireless LAN emulation over ATM networks.- 7 System support for distributed multimedia applications with guaranteed quality of service.- 8 Meeting end-to-end QoS challenges for scalable flows in heterogenous multimedia environments.- 9 On the definition and representation of the quality of service for multimedia systems.- 10 In-service monitoring techniques for cell transfer delay and cell delay variation in ATM networks.- 11 An efficient rate allocation algorithm for ATM networks providing max-min fairness.- 12 Impact of MPEG video traffic on an ATM multiplexer.- 13 Development of a MPEG data stream characterization for use with ATM networks.- 14 Performance trade-offs for a multimedia distributed application.- 15 Efficient configuration of protocol software for multiprocessors.- 16 Application level framing and automated implementation.- 17 Efficiency comparison of real-time transport protocols.- 18 Supporting timing and requirements of digital video and audio in desktop conferencing systems.- 19 Performance analysis of the demand priority LAN.- 20 Performance issues in implementing a portable SMDS server.- 21 Emulation of traffic congestion on ATM gigabit networks.- 22 A new congestion control framework for large bandwidth-delay product networks.- 23 Dynamic routing based on a single parameter: link congestion probability.- 24 A distributed route-selection scheme for establishing real-time channels.- 25 Design of an access control mechanism for the available bit rate service in ATM networks.- 26 Performance analysis of the dual cell spacer in ATM systems.- 27 Design and performance study of a flexible traffic shaper for high speed networks.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.