4. Broadband Communications 1998: Stuttgart, Germany

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/broadband/1998,
  editor    = {Paul J. K{\"u}hn and
               Roya Ulrich},
  title     = {Broadband Communications: The future of telecommunications, IFIP
               TC6/WG6.2 Fourth International Conference on Broadband Communications
               (BC '98), April 1-3, 1998, Stuttgart, Germany},
  booktitle = {Broadband Communications},
  publisher = {Chapman {\&} Hall},
  series    = {IFIP Conference Proceedings},
  volume    = {121},
  year      = {1998},
  isbn      = {0-412-84410-9},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Plenary sessions: new applications and internet technologies

• Bernhard Plattner: New applications of broadband networks: a vision based on the state of the art in networking. 3-10
• Stefan Nilsson, Gunnar Karlsson: Fast address look-up for internet routers. 11-22
• Alexander Schill, Sabine Kühn, Frank Breiter: Design and evaluation of an advance reservation protocol on top of RSVP. 23-40
• S. S. C. Lee, K. F. Cheung, Danny H. K. Tsang: Buffer reservation for TCP over ATM networks. 41-52

Broadband technologies, architectures and network design

Access networks

• Saso Stojanovski, Maurice Gagnaire: Impact of time division duplexing on delay variation in slotted access systems. 57-68
• Jan Vandewege, Xing-Zhi Qiu, Brecht Stubbe, Chris Coene, Peter Vaes, Wei Li, Jan Codenie, Claire Martin, B. Hans Slabbinck, Ingrid Van de Voorde, Paolo Solina, Pietro Obino: A lab demonstration of a SuperPON optical access network. 69-80
• Joachim Charzinski: Request contention and request polling for the upstream media access control in ATM networks. 81-92

Mobile access

• Tijana Timotijevic, John A. Schormans: Performance analysis of ATM transmission over a DS-CDMA channel. 95-106
• Tolga Örs, Zhili Sun, Barry G. Evans: An adaptive random-reservation MAC protocol to guarantee QoS for ATM over satellite. 107-118
• David Vázquez-Cortizo, Jorge García: A collision resolution algorithm for ad-hoc wireless LANs. 119-130

ATM mobile

• Dietmar Petras: Air interface of an ATM radio access network. 133-144
• Klaus Keil, Hajo Bakker, Wolfgang Schödl, Manfred Litzenburger: Signalling for handover in a broadband cellular ATM system. 145-156
• Selma Boumerdassi: A new channel reservation and prediction concept in cellular communications systems. 157-168

Service control

• D. Blaiotta, S. Daneluzzi, D. Fava, D. Lento, M. Varisco: Signalling/IN server architecture for a broadband SSP. 171-182
• P. Martins, C. Rigault, N. Raguideau: A signalling based approach to broadband service control application to access signaling. 183-194
• J. Berghoff, J. Schuhmann, Michael Matthes, Oswald Drobnik: Communication support for knowledge-intensive services. 195-206

QoS and charging schemes

• Costas Courcoubetis, Frank P. Kelly, Vasilios A. Siris, Richard R. Weber: A study of simple usage-based charging schemes for broadband networks. 209-221
• Haïkel Yaïche, Ravi Mazumdar, Catherine Rosenberg: A game theoretic framework for rate allocation and charging of available bit rate (ABR) connections in ATM networks. 222-233
• Georg Carle, Stefan Dresler, Jochen H. Schiller: Multipath FEC scheme for the ATM adaptation layer AAL5. 234-246

Network planning and management

• Andreas Iselt: Redundancy domains - a novel approach for survivable communication networks. 249-260
• K. Van Doorselaere, Kris Struyve, Carlo Brianza, Piet Demeester: Time analysis of fault propagation in SDH-based ATM networks. 261-273
• Admela Jukan: Resource management for service accommodation in optical networks. 274-286

ATM interworking

• Dae Young Kim, J.-S. Kim: Design and implementation of an ATM cell controller for FR/ATM interworking system. 289-299
• Toru Hasegawa, M. Yamada, K. Hokamura, K. Yoshiizumi, Teruyuki Hasegawa, Toshihiko Kato, Linda Galasso, Hiroyuki Fujii: High speed TCP/IP experiment over international ATM test bed. 300-311
• Reinhold Eberhardt, Christian Rueß, Rolf Sigle: Performance measurement in local and wide area ATM networks. 312-324

Traffic control, modelling and analysis

ATM connection admission control

• K. Schmidt, M. Wichers, Ulrich Killat: Can an equivalent capacity CAC deal with worst case traffic in GCRA-policed ATM networks? 329-340
• Stefan Bodamer, Thomas Renger, Georg Rößler: Traffic management in an ATM multi-service switch for workgroups. 341-355
• E. Aarstad, Søren Blaabjerg, Fernando Cerdán, S. Peeters, Kathleen Spaey: CAC investigation for video and data. 356-368

Congestion control

• Louis G. Samuel, Jonathan M. Pitts, Raul J. Mondragón, David K. Arrowsmith: The MAPS control paradigm: using chaotic maps to control telecoms networks. 371-382
• M. A. Rahin, Mourad Kara: Indicators for the assessment of congestion in TCP over ATM-UBR. 383-394
• Mário Macedo, Mário Serafim Nunes, H. Duarte-Ramos: FATHOC - a rate control algorithm for HFC networks. 395-406

Traffic control

• Lorne Mason, Anne Pelletier, E. Létourneau: Decentralized control scheme for large-scale ATM networks. 409-422
• Jochen H. Schiller, Per Gunningberg: Feasibility of a software-based ATM cell-level scheduler with advanced shaping. 423-424
• Shoji Kasahara, Toshiharu Hasegawa: Sample-path analysis of queueing systems with leaky bucket. 435-446

Routing and Multicasting

• Ralph Wittmann, Martina Zitterbart: Active multicasting for heterogeneous groups. 449-460
• S. A. Berezner, Anthony E. Krzesinski: Call admission and routing in ATM networks based on virtual path separation. 461-472
• Jouni Karvo, Jorma T. Virtamo, Samuli Aalto, Olli Martikainen: Blocking of dynamic multicast connections in a single link. 473-484

Traffic flow control

• Gérard Hébuterne: QoS characterization of the ATM block transfer mode with instantaneous transmission. 487-498
• A. Calveras Augé, Josep Paradells, P. Antequera, K.-J. Schulz: Dynamic rate adaptation for efficient use of frame relay networks. 499-510
• Marco Ajmone Marsan, K. Begain, Renato Lo Cigno, Maurizio M. Munafò: Stop & go ABR: a simple algorithm for the implementation of best effort services in ATM Lans. 511-522

Source and traffic modelling

• Sandrine Vaton, E. Moulines: A locally stationary semi-Markovian representation for ethernet LAN traffic data. 525-527
• L. de la Cruz, M. Fernández, Juan J. Alins-Delgado, Jorge Mata-Díaz: Bidimensional fluid model for VBR MPEG video traffic. 538-549
• Floris Geerts, Chris Blondia: Superposition of Markov sources and long range dependence. 550-562

Performance modelling and dimensioning

• M. Baumann, T. Müller, W. Ooghe, A. Santos, S. Winstanley, M. Zeller: Multi-layer modelling of a multimedia application. 564-576
• José M. Barceló, Jorge García: Multiplexing periodic sources in a tree network of ATM multiplexers. 577-588
• André Girard, Catherine Rosenberg: Dimensioning of ATM networks with finite buffers under call-level and cell-level QoS constraints. 589-600