Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks are widely considered to be the new generation of high speed communication systems both for broadband public information highways and for local and wide area private networks. ATM is designed to integrate existing and future voice, audio, image and data services. Moreover, ATM aims to simplify the complexity of switching and buffer management, to optimise intermediate node processing and buffering and to limit transmission delays. However, to support such diverse services on one integrated communication network, it is most essential, through careful engineering, to achieve a fruitful balance amongst the conflicting requirements of different quality of service constraints ensuring that one service does not have adverse implications on another. Over recent years there has been a great deal of progress in research and development of ATM technology, but there are still many interesting and important problems to be resolved such as traffic characterisation and control, routing and optimisation, ATM switching techniques and the provision of quality of service. This book presents thirty-two research papers, both from industry and academia, reflecting latest original achievements in the theory and practice of performance modelling of ATM networks worldwide. These papers were selected, subject to peer review, from those submitted as extended and revised versions out of fifty-nine shorter papers presented at the Second IFIP Workshop on "Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks" July 4-7, 1994, Bradford University. At least three referees from the scientific committee and externally were involved in the selection of each paper.

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One Traffic Models and Characterization.- 1 An analytical description of the packet trains model for LAN traffic characterization.- 2 VBR video in ATM without frame buffering: influence of a periodic correlation function on QoS parameters.- 3 Bursty traffic modelling and multiplexing performance analysis in ATM networks: a three moment approach.- Two Traffic Control.- 4 Performance analysis of fast reservation protocols for ATM networks.- 5 Characterising the worst traffic profile passing through an ATM-UNI.- 6 Discrete-time models for connection admission control (CAC) in ATM.- 7 Simulation of traffic shaping algorithms in ATM networks.- Three Routing and Optimization.- 8 Stochastic allocation of virtual paths to ATM links.- 9 Semi-centralized routing algorithms for 3-stage Clos networks.- 10 High level B-ISDN/ATM traffic management in real time.- 11 Conservation laws for dynamic routing in multi-path networks.- Four Methodology and ATM Switching.- 12 An application of stochastic ordering to the analysis of the push-out mechanism.- 13 A performance evaluation of a 3-stage ATM Clos switch under bursty traffic.- 14 Bounds on the effects of correlation in a stable MMPP/MMPP/1/N queue: an asymptotic approach.- 15 Accurate approximation of the cell loss ratio in ATM buffers with multiple servers.- 16 Exact results for an ATM multiplexer with infinite queue loaded with batch Markovian arrivals.- Five Queueing Network Models.- 17 D-BMAP models for performance evaluation of ATM networks.- 18 Diffusion models to study nonstationary traffic and cell loss in ATM networks.- 19 A product form approximation for arbitrary discrete time networks of shared buffer queues.- 20 Response time distributions in packet-switched Banyan networks.- Six Quality of Service.- 21 Estimating QoS parameters for ATM traffic using its entropy.- 22 A novel dynamic priority scheduling method for multiple classes of ATM traffic in an ATM statistical multiplexer.- 23 FEC and multi-layer video coding for ATM networks.- 24 Single node and end-to-end buffer control in real time.- 25 Performance space of a GI/G/1 queueing system under a percentile goal criterion.- 26 End-to-end guaranteed QoS with statistical multiplexing for ATM networks.- Seven Network Management.- 27 Methods for performance monitoring and traffic measurements at cell level in ATM networks.- 28 The design of survivable ATM networks.- Eight Performance Modelling Studies.- 29 Performance study on ATM adaption layer.- 30 Performance evaluation of threshold-based ATM cell scheduling policies under Markov modulated Poisson traffic using stochastic Petri nets.- 31 Modelling the reassembly buffer in a connectionless server.- 32 High performance ATM terminals: design and evaluation.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.