High-Speed Networking for Multimedia Applications

High-Speed Networking for Multimedia Applications presents the latest research on the architecture and protocols for high-speed networks, focusing on communication support for distributed multimedia applications. This includes the two major issues of ATM Networking and quality of service for multimedia applications.
It is to be expected that most of the bandwidth in future high-speed networks will be taken up by multimedia applications, transmitting digital audio and video. Traditional networking protocols are not suitable for this as they do not provide guaranteed bandwidth, end-to-end delay or delay jitter, nor do they have addressing schemes or routing algorithms for multicast connections.
High-Speed Networking for Multimedia Applications is a collection of high quality research papers which address these issues, providing interesting and innovative solutions. It is an essential reference for engineers and computer scientists working in this area. It is also a comprehensive text for graduate students of high-speed networking and multimedia applications.

Preface; W. Effelsberg, et al. 1. End-to-End Communication Across Hybrid Networks; M. Zitterbart, A. Fieger. 2. Reduce Connection Awareness; E. Gauthier, et al. 3. Is ATM a Continuity or a Discontinuity for the LAN Environment? A. Danthine, O. Bonaventure. 4. On the Performance of Networks Carrying Multimedia Traffic; F.A. Tobagi, I. Dalgiç. 5. The Server Array: A Scalable Video Server Architecture; Ch. Bernhardt, E. Biersack. 6. A Scalable Architecture for Multimedia Storage; D. Pegler, et al. 7. Aqua: An Adaptive End-System Quality of Service Architecture; K. Lakshman, R. Yavatkar. 8. Quality of Service Support for Protocol Processing Within Endsystems; R. Gopalakrishnan, G.M. Parulkar. 9. High Performance Group Communication Services in ATM Networks; G. Carle, S. Dresler. 10. Multimedia Transport Protocol and Multicast Communication; S. Fdida. 11. PET-Priority Encoding Transmission; A. Albanese, M. Luby. 12. Real-Time Communication in Shared-Medium High Speed LANs; P. Martini. 13. Batch Renewal Process: Exact Model of Traffic Correlation; D. Kouvatsos, R. Fretwell. 14. Residential Oriented Customer Premises Network Based on ATM Principles; R. Rocha, A. Casaca. 15. Voice-Data Integrated Channel Access for Microcellular Networks Using Splitting RRA Algorithms; A.C. Cleary, M. Paterakis. 16. Wireless Access to High Speed Networks; A. Wolisz, et al. Index of Authors.