One Multicast Implementation Issues. - 1 Multicast server architectures for supporting IP multicast over ATM. - 2 Center placement algorithms for large multicast groups. - Two Experimental Results. - 3 On the integration of the UMTS amd B-ISDN system. - 4 Measuring the behavior of a world-wide web server. - 5 A framework for ATM testing. - Three Multimedia Traffic. - 6 The effect of various ATM switch architectures on VBR video performance. - 7 Throughout optimization for multimedia applications over high speed networks. - 8 Issues in platform-independent support for multimedia desktop. - 9 Design and implementation of a flexible traffic controller for ATM connections. - Four Quality of Service. - 10 On routing with QoS constraints in ATM networks. - 11 Mobiware: QoS-aware middleware for mobile multimedia communications. - Five Fundamental Concepts. - 12 Enforcing quality of service for adaptive multimedia applications via fair queueing. - 13 Adaptive variation of reliability. - 14 On compartmental modelling of multi-service communication networks. - 15 Performance evaluations of partial order connections. - Six Architectural Issues. - 16 A performance model for integrated layer processing. - 17 An architecture for active networking. - 18 The strategy of traffic dispersion. - Seven Bandwidth Allocation. - 19 Dynamic bandwidth allocation for stored VBR video in ATM endsystems. - 20 Analysis of a new end-to-end proportional bandwidth allocation algorithm. - 21 A simulation study of a wireless bandwidth reservation multiple access protocol for multimedia traffic. - Index of contributors. - Keyword index. Language: English