Performance and Management of Complex Communication Networks

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.