Broadband communications is widely recognized as one of the most revolutionary emerging technologies of the last decade of the 20th century. This book provides a comprehensive snapshot of leading-edge research across a structured set of topics vital to broadband communications infrastructure for the information age. The book is organized into two parts. The theme of Part One is broadband traffic modelling and control, and addresses the topics of traffic modelling, call admission and routing, ABR control algorithms, traffic control, resource allocation, performance analysis and traffic estimation. The theme of Part Two is broadband technologies, broadband switching, high-speed protocols, traffic engineering, network design, network reliability, testbed networks and circuit emulation. The book contains the selected proceedings of the First International Conference on Broadband Communications, co-sponsored by IFIP and the IEEE, and held in Montreal, (Quebec), Canada, April 1996. It should be valuable reading for industrial telecommunication engineers, graduate students, lecturers and professors in telecommunications and computer engineering.
