We are witnessing an ever-increasing thrust toward the era of multimedia information networks, largely spurred by the U.S. Government's proposal for the National Information Infrastructure in the fall of 1993. While more people are subscribing to the services of narrowband ISDN, the implementation of broadband ISDN by means of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) has accelerated since the formation of the ATM Forum in 1993. In the meantime, frame relay may prevail for inter-LAN connections. In the ""upper layer"" of the network, commercial use of Internet is rapidly emerging. To ensure the successful development of technology, it is vital to use a judicious approach in assessing the architecture and performance of the systems that implement the technology. It is this spirit that underlies the present conference, which is intended to provide an international forum for the presentation of recent research results in the area of local and metropolitan communication systems. This conference has two sets of predecessors. It is the third in a series of international conferences on Local and Metropolitan Communication Systems -LAN & MAN; the first was held in Toulouse in 1986 and the second in Palma de Mallorca in 1991. It is also the fourth in a triennial series organized by Kyoto University and others on the performance of communication-related systems; the previous ones were held in Tokyo (1985) and Kyoto (1988, 1991).
Edited by:
Toshiharu Hasegawa, Yukata Takahashi, Guy Pujolle, Hideaki Takagi Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Country of Publication: United States Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995 Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 747g ISBN:9781475756722 ISBN 10: 1475756720 Series:IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Pages: 480 Publication Date:27 February 2013 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active