Architecture of High-Speed LANs and MANs -- Network Management and Control in Broadband Telecommunication Networks:Research Issues and Some Partial Solutions -- The Medium Access Control -- Wide Area Connectionless IEEE 802.6 MAN Services -- New Access Schemes for Gbit/s LANs and MANs -- Cell Switching and Access Schemes for HS-LANs and HS-MANs -- First Experiences in High-Speed LANs -- High-Speed Local Area Networks - What, Why, When and How: Planning, Installation and First Experiences of a HSLAN in a Heterogeneous Environment -- ONERA Gbit/s LAN: First Experiment and Use -- LION and MAX, the experiences of two Esprit Projects on High-Speed MANs -- Metropolitan Area Networks -- Fault Tolerance and Circuit Service in Deflection Networks -- A Linear Lightwave MAN Architecture -- Routing in Large Metropolitan Area Networks Based on Wavelength-Division Multiplexing Technology -- Impact of High Performance and Integrity Requirements on Metropolitan Area Network's Architecture and Technology -- DQDB -- Problems Arising from Deflection Routing: Live-lock, Lockout, Congestion and Message Reassembly -- Towards Formal Structures for IEEE 802.6 -- Modelling of the DQDB Access Protocol and Closed-Form Approximation -- Approximate Performance Model and Fairness Condition of the DQDB Protocol -- An analytical Model for the High-Speed Protocol DQDB -- Frame Delay Analysis of the DQDB Protocol -- Performance of ATM Techniques -- Fast Packet Switch Architectures and the Tandem Banyan Switching Fabric -- An Approximation Analysis of a Shared Buffer ATM Switch Architecture under Bursty Arrivals -- Some Results on Traffic Control and Resource Allocation in ATM Networks -- New Trends in High-Speed Communications -- Reliable Broadcast and Agreement with Unreliable Asynchronous High-Speed LANs and MANs -- Reliable Multicasting in High-Speed LANs -- Management Considerations in Moving from a 10 Mbit LAN to a 100 Mbit LAN -- Performance Issues -- On Overload Control of High-Speed Switching Nodes -- Proposal-Petition Protocol: Models for Performance Evaluation -- Gateways -- Design, Implementation and Performance Analysis of an ETHERNET to LION Gateway -- Design and Analysis of Flow Control Protocols for Metropolitan Area Networks -- Control in High-Speed Networks -- Analysis of an Asymmetric Polling Model with Cycle-time Constraint -- Waiting Times in Token Rings with Helical Window and Window-Gated Service -- Priorities in ATM Networks.