Front Cover; Data Communication Systems and Their Performance; Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; CHAIRMAN; PROGRAM COMMITTEE; ORGANIZING COMMITTEE; LIST OF REFEREES; PART 1: INVITED PAPERS; Chapter 1. Performance Issues of the DQDB Protocol; Abstract; Keywords; 1.- Introduction; 2.- The Distributed Queue Dual Bus Network; 3.- Performance study; 4. Performance analysis and discussion; 5.- Conclusions and futural work; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. APPLICATIONS OF SAMPLE PATH ANALYSIS TO COMMUNICATION NETWORK CONTROL; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SAMPLE PATH COMPARISON TECHNIQUES

3. APPLICATIONS TO ROUTING4. APPLICATIONS TO REAL-TIME DATA COMMUNICATIONS; 5. SUMMARY; REFERENCES; PART 2: POLLING SYSTEMS; CHAPTER 3. MEAN DELAY APPROXIMATIONS FOR POLLING SYSTEMS WITH BATCH POISSON INPUT; 1. Introduction; 2. System Model Description and Definitions; 3. Average Message Delay Analysis; 4. Numerical Results; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4. Asymptotic Optimality of the Go-Back-n Protocol In High Speed Data Newworks With Small Buffers; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. BACKGROUND FACTS; 3. MAIN RESULTS; 4. NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; 5. DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Chapter 8. Analysis of a Class of Buffer Storage Systems with Markov-Correlated Input and Bulk ServiceABSTRACT; Key Words; 1.0 Introduction and Problem Statement; 2.0 Model Description and Notation; 3.0 Solution Method; 4.0 Modeling Examples and Numerical Results; 5.0 Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix A; PART 4: MODELING OF SWITCHING TECHNIQUES; CHAPTER 9. HEAD OF THE LINE ARBITRATION OF PACKET SWITCHES WITH INPUT AND OUTPUT QUEUEING; I. INTRODUCTION; II. SYSTEM ANALYSIS; III. SATURATION ANALYSIS; IV. NUMERICAL RESULTS; V. CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX: WAITING TIME ANALYSIS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT