Worldwide Advances in Communication Networks

✍ Scribed by David M. Lucantoni, Marcel F. Neuts (auth.), Bijan Jabbari (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The symposium on "Worldwide Advances in Communications Networks" which was held on May 14-15, 1992 at GMU was an ambitious attempt to bring together leaders in the communications area to discuss the major issues in this rapidly-changing technology. The symposium was a success and many of the ideas presented at the conference are being implemented. This proceeding contains the majority of the papers presented at the symposium and abstracts of the remainder. The papers may be divided into seven general categories. The first five papers explore some important design issues for high speed networks (gigabit networks). Traffic modelling, quality of service guarantees, switching alternatives, and routing are discussed. The next two papers focus on applications for broadband communications. Weinstein begins by asking, "ARE THERE ANY APPLICATIONS?" and then proceeds to develop a wide variety of potential uses. Personick concentrates on multimedia applications. The next three papers deal with Personal Communications Services (PCS) and the notion of communicating with anyone, at any time, anywhere. Several of the key technical issues such as CDMA vs TDMA are analyzed in detail. The fourth area is satellite communications. Two papers discuss some of the major changes that are taking place and potential new systems. The next two papers discuss signal coding and digital video. Jayant provides an excellent overview of the impressive capabilities that are available for the compression of speech, audio, image, and video signals. Bellisio concentrates on video encoding.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Traffic Modelling for Broadband Services....Pages 1-8
Video and Multimedia Transport Over Packet Media....Pages 9-18
Providing Quality of Service Guarantees in High-Speed Networks....Pages 19-26
High Speed Switching Alternatives for Broadband Communications....Pages 27-31
Design, Dimensioning, Routing, and Control of Gigabit Networks....Pages 33-37
Applications for Broad Band Communications....Pages 39-50
Multimedia Applications and Their Communications Needs....Pages 51-55
Applied Microcell Technology in the PCS Environment....Pages 57-63
Issues in Microcellular Communications — CDMA Versus TDMA....Pages 65-83
The Millicom/SCS Mobilecom PCN Field Test....Pages 85-90
Control Architectures for Fixed and Mobile Networks....Pages 91-98
Mobile-User Networking: The Satellite Alternative....Pages 99-106
Advances in Satellite Networks....Pages 107-123
Signal Coding: The Next Decade....Pages 125-136
Current Trends in Digital Video....Pages 137-141
Progress in Free-Space Digital Optics....Pages 143-148
FDDI: Current Issues and Future Plans....Pages 149-166
Routing Protocols Resistant to Sabotage....Pages 167-169
Internet Infrastructure for Privacy-Enhanced Mail....Pages 171-175
Delay and Congestion in High Speed Integrated Networks....Pages 177-177
Bandwidth Management in ATM Networks Using Fast Buffer Reservation....Pages 178-178
Cooperative Design Over High Speed Networks....Pages 179-179
Traffic Research for ATM Networks....Pages 180-180
Some Issues on Interconnection of High Speed Networks....Pages 181-181
Concepts and Issues in All-Optical Networks....Pages 182-182
Computing in the Year 2020....Pages 183-183
Cellular Telephone Systems: Queueing, Blocking and Guardbands....Pages 184-184
Back Matter....Pages 185-185

✦ Subjects

Social Work; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Electrical Engineering; Computer Communication Networks