Broadband Network Traffic Performance Evaluation and Design of Broadband Multiservice Networks, Final Report of Action COST 242

This coherently structured and authorative text is the final report of the European Action COST 242, devoted to advancing research in the field of multiservice network design and performance evaluation. The excellent results presented are largely based on some 240 action reports compiled in cooperat...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Roberts, James (Editor), Mocci, Ugo (Editor), Virtamo, Jorma (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1996, 1996
Edition:1st ed. 1996
Series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Broadband traffic characteristics
  • Broadband service models
  • Accounting for cell delay variation
  • Statistical resource sharing
  • Connection admission control
  • Weighted fair queueing
  • Access network design
  • MAC protocols for access to B-ISDN
  • Generic architecture and core network design
  • Multiservice network dimensioning
  • Virtual path network design
  • Resource management and routing
  • Traffic modelling
  • General tools for queueing analysis
  • Cell scale queueing
  • Burst scale loss systems
  • Burst scale delay systems
  • Multi-rate models