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).

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I Mobile Networks.- 1 Mobile communication traffic analysis on a road systems model.- II Queueing Models for ATM.- 2 Deriving the tail distribution of the buffer contents in a statistical multiplexer with general heterogeneous on/off sources.- 3 Tail probability of a Gaussian fluid queue under finite measurement of input processes.- 4 Delay and overflow of discrete-time priority queue with burst arrivals and partial buffer sharing.- III Long-Range Dependence.- 5 Measuring ATM traffic cell-by-cell: experiences and preliminary findings from BAGNet.- 6 A discrete-time ATM traffic model with long range dependence characteristics.- 7 Bottlenecks on the way towards fractal characterization of network traffic: estimation and interpretation of the Hurst parameter.- IV Distributed and Parallel Systems.- 8 A workload characterization methodology for WWW applications.- 9 Performance study of shared-nothing parallel transaction processing systems.- V Wireless Communications.- 10 High-speed free-space laser communication.- 11 A survey of wireless ATM MAC protocols.- VI Time-Limited Service Queues.- 12 Two-class priority queueing system with time-limited schedule.- 13 Waiting time distributions in a two-queue model with mixed exhaustive and gated-type K-limited services.- 14 Gated time-limited polling systems.- VII ATM Traffic Measurements.- 15 Realizing quality of service guarantees in multiservice networks.- 16 Measurement-based CAC for video applications using SBR service.- 17 A source independent traffic model for ATM networks.- 18 Resource allocations protocols impact on MPEG sequence quality.- VIII Phase-Type Input Models.- 19 The round-robin service discipline in discrete time for phase-type distributed packet-lengths.- 20 An M/M/c queue with interdependent arrival and serviceprocesses.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.