One ATM Multiplexing -- 1 An exact model for the multiplexing of worst case traffic sources -- 2 On per-session performance of an ATM multiplexer with heterogeneous speed links -- 3 Effect of the on-period distribution on the performance of an ATM multiplexer fed by on/off sources: an analytical study -- Two High-Performance Protocols -- 4 General bypass architecture for high-performance distributed applications -- 5 High performance protocol architecture -- 6 Enabling high bandwidth applications by high-performance multicast transfer protocol processing -- Three Switching -- 7 Performance of an ATM LAN switch with back-pressure function -- 8 A study of switch models for the scalable coherent interface -- 9 Optimization of logically rearrangeable multihop lightwave networks with genetic algorithms -- Four Queueing Models -- 10 Closed form performance distributions of a discrete time GIg/D/1/N queue with correlated traffic -- 11 Buffer requirements in ATM related queueing models with bursty traffic: an alternative approach -- 12 Discrete time analysis of a finite capacity queue with an 'all or nothing policy' to reduce burst loss -- 13 Study of the impact of temporal/spatial correlations on a tagged traffic stream -- Five Source Modelling -- 14 On the prediction of the stochastic behavior of time series by use of neural networks - performance analysis and results -- 15 The entropy of cell streams as a traffic descriptor in ATM networks -- Six Traffic Management 1 -- 16 Analytic models for separable statistical multiplexing -- 17 On the effective bandwidth of arbitrary on/off sources -- 18 The impact of the reactive functions on the LAN interconnection by a frame-relay net -- Seven Traffic Management 2 -- 19 Dimensioning the continuous state leaky bucket for geometric arrivals -- 20 On-line bandwidth and buffer allocation for ATM -- 21 ATM traffic analysis and control for ABR service provisioning -- Eight Performance and Optimization of ATM Networks -- 22 Performance evaluation of frame relay, SMDS and best efforts services in ATM networks -- 23 The statistically correct approach to distributed simulation of ATM networks -- 24 An error monitor algorithm for ATM signalling links -- 25 Virtual path assignment problem in ATM networks -- 26 Enhancing ATM network performance by optimizing the virtual network configuration -- Index of contributors -- Keyword index.