We arehappy to welcome you to the IFIP Protocols for High-Speed Networks '96 workshop hosted by INRIA Sophia Antipolis. This is the fifth event in a series initiated in Zurich in 1989 followed by Palo Alto (1990), Stockholm (1993), and Vancouver (1994). This workshop provides an international forum for the exchange of information on protocols for high-speed networks. The workshop focus on problems related to the e:fficient transmission of multimedia application data using high-speed networks and internetworks. Protocol for High-Speed Networks is a "working conference". That explains we have privileged high quality papers describing on-going research and novel ideas. The number of selected papers was kept low in order to leave room for discussion on each paper. Together with the technical sessions, working sessions were organized on hot topics. We would like to thank all the authors for their interest. We also thank the Program Committee members for the Ievel of effort in the reviewingprocess and in the workshop technical program organization. We finally thank INRIA and DRET for their financial support to the organization of the workshop.

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1 Estimating the available bandwidth for real-time traffic over best effort networks.- 2 A new algorithm for measurement-based admission control in integrated services packet networks.- 3 Simulation analysis of TCP and XTP file transfers in ATM networks.- 4 A picture quality control framework for MPEG video over ATM.- 5 Is VBR a solution for an ATM LAN.- 6 A fast, flexible network interface framework.- 7 Multimedia partial order transport architecture: design and implementation.- 8 The case for packet level FEC.- 9 Fully reliable multicast in heterogeneous environments.- 10 Reliable multicast: where to use FEX.- 11 Performance evaluation of reliable multicast transport protocol for large-scale delivery.- 12 Integrated layer processing can be hazardous to your performance.- 13 Automated code generation for integrated layer processing.- 14 Implementation and evaluation of the QoS-A transport system.- 15 User-to-user QoS management and monitoring.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.