1 Introduction. - 1. 1 Capacity. - 1. 2 From LANs to MANs. - 1. 3 Fairness. - 1. 4 User-oriented Performance Figures. - 1. 5 Modeling of a MAN Environment. - 1. 6 Outline of Contents. - 2 Stochastic Processes for Modeling Metropolitan Area Networks: Basic Results. - 2. 1 Queueing Models for MAN Modeling. - 2. 2 System Properties. - 2. 3 Some Results on Renewal and Regenerative Processes. - 2. 4 Work Conservation Laws. - 2. 5 Stochastic Decomposition Laws. - 2. 6 Pseudo-conservation Laws. - 3 Methods for the Analysis of Node-In-Isolation Models. - 3. 1 M/G/l Systems. - 3. 2 M/G/l Systems with Vacation. - 3. 3 M/G/l-type Models. - 3. 4 Application of Node-in-isolation Models: Worst-case Analysis. - 4 Methods for the Analysis of Network-Wide Models: Polling Models. - 4. 1 From Pseudo-conservation Laws to Waiting Time Analysis. - 4. 2 Numerical Methods. - 4. 3 For Further Study. - 5 Fiber-Distributed Data Interface (FDDI). - 5. 1 Introduction. - 5. 2 FDDI Layers and Services. - 5. 3 MAC Protocol. - 5. 4 FDDI MAC Protocol Capacity. - 5. 5 FDDI Cycle Properties. - 5. 6 Remarks on the IEEE 802. 4 Token Bus Protocol. - 5. 7 Current Use of FDDI. - 6 FDDI Models. - 6. 1 Introduction. - 6. 2 Network-wide Models. - 6. 3 Station-in-isolation Models. - 6. 3. 1 M/G/l with Vacation and Exhaustive Limited with Limit Variation Service Discipline (Model 5). - 6. 4 Model 4: Details of the Computation. - 7 Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB). - 7. 1 Functional Architecture of a Node. - 7. 2 Connectionless Data Service. - 7. 3 DQDB Performance and Fairness. - 7. 4 The Bandwidth Balancing Mechanism. - 7. 5 DQDB MAC Protocol Capacity. - 7. 6 Current Use of DQDB. - 8 DQDB Models. - 8. 1 Introduction. - 8. 2 Network-wide Models. - 8. 3 Node-in-isolation Models. - 9 Evolution Towards Gigabit Rates. - 9. 1 Shared Medium Gigabit Networks. - 9. 2 ATM-based Gigabit Networks. - Acronyms. - Glossary of Notation. Language: English