We are witnessing an ever-increasing thrust toward the era of multimedia information networks, largely spurred by the U.S. Government's proposal for the National Information Infrastructure in the fall of 1993. While more people are subscribing to the services of narrowband ISDN, the implementation of broadband ISDN by means of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) has accelerated since the formation of the ATM Forum in 1993. In the meantime, frame relay may prevail for inter-LAN connections. In the "upper layer" of the network, commercial use of Internet is rapidly emerging. To ensure the successful development of technology, it is vital to use a judicious approach in assessing the architecture and performance of the systems that implement the technology. It is this spirit that underlies the present conference, which is intended to provide an international forum for the presentation of recent research results in the area of local and metropolitan communication systems. This conference has two sets of predecessors. It is the third in a series of international conferences on Local and Metropolitan Communication Systems -LAN & MAN; the first was held in Toulouse in 1986 and the second in Palma de Mallorca in 1991. It is also the fourth in a triennial series organized by Kyoto University and others on the performance of communication-related systems; the previous ones were held in Tokyo (1985) and Kyoto (1988, 1991).

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One MAN.- 1 Evolution of a network management system.- 2 Bandwidth arrangement and self-healing algorithm for logical mesh connected multi-gigabit ring networks.- 3 Service guarantee in deflection networks.- 4 Modeling and control of isochronous and asynchronous traffic flows in a metropolitan area network.- Two ATM Traffic Characterization.- 5 ATM forum and its activities.- 6 Effectiveness of the ATM forum source traffic description.- 7 MPEG-video sources in ATM-systems a new approach for the dimensioning of policing functions.- Three ATM Multiplexing.- 8 Performance analysis of cell rate monitoring mechanisms in ATM systems.- 9 Cell loss ratio of ATM multiplexer controlled by leaky bucket type UPC.- 10 On the superposition of a number of CDV affected cell streams.- Four ATM Traffic Management.- 11 The bundle-spacer: a cost effective alternative for traffic shaping in ATM networks.- 12 Combined preventive/reactive congestion control in LAN/MAN interconnection networks.- 13 VP bandwidth management with dynamic connection admission control in ATM networks.- Five ATM Switch.- 14 ATM switch with GAMMA network; provision of multiple paths.- Six Multicast.- 15 ATM LANs: new trends and performance comparison.- 16 Reliability in multicast services and protocols; a survey.- 17 Throughput analysis of stop-and-wait retransmission schemes for k-reliable multicast.- Seven DQDB.- 18 Internetworking of DQDB subnetworks: a maximum throughput analysis.- 19 DQDB some new characteristics.- 20 Changeover without slot loss of the erasure nodes on DQDB.- 21 Connection oriented isochronous services in a DQDB network: specification of a service-protocol pair and a bandwidth allocation scheme.- Eight LAN.- 22 Analysis of single-buffer polling models for time-slotted communicationprotocols.- 23 An asynchronous reservation protocol for variable-sized messages in local lightwave networks using a passive star topology.- Nine Queueing Models.- 24 Performance evaluation of client-server distributed information systems.- 25 A performance model for the link-transport layer serving XTP in a high speed network.- 26 Analysis of an alternating priority queue with general decreasing service and with setup times or server vacations.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.