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. Language: English