High Performance Networking

One: Broadband Internet Access.- Broadband access to the Internet - an overview.- Performance of multiple access protocols in geo-stationary satellite systems.- A new HFC architecture using return path multiplexing.- Two: Multimedia Multicast.- End-to-end reliable multicast transport protocol adaptation for floor control and other conference control functions requirements.- An architecture for conference-support using secured multicast.- SELDOM: A simple and efficient low-cost, delay-bounded, online multicasting.- Three: Scalable Multicast.- A scalable and robust feedback mechanism for adaptive multimedia multicast systems.- A scalable protocol for reporting periodically using multicast IP.- A scalability scheme for the real-time control protocol.- Four: ATM Infrastructure.- Enhanced convolution approach for connection admission control in ATM networks.- Fast rerouting in ATM networks: Pro-active search protocol.- Impact of VC merging on buffer requirements in ATM networks.- A comparison of ATM stream merging techniques.- Integrating parallel computing applications in an ATM scenario.- Five: Next generation internet.- Differentiated services: A new approach for quality of service in the internet.- Toward a hierarchical mobile Ipv6.- Active libraries: A flexible strategy for active networks.- Six: QoS in the Internet.- End-to-End QoS provisioning through resource adaptation.- A dynamic sender-initiated reservation protocol for the internet.- USD: Scalable bandwidth allocation for the internet.- A connectionless approach to providing QoS in IP networks.- Seven: IP/ATM Internetworks.- An implementation of a gateway for hierarchically encoded video across ATM and IP networks.- Trading off network utilisation and delays by performing shaping on VC ATM connections carryingLAN Traffic.- Packet-based approach to ATM cell policing, and their effects on internet traffic.- Optimising bandwidth reservation in IP/ATM internetworks using the guaranteed delay service.- Eight:

Harmen R. van As is full-professor at the Vienna University of Technology and head of the Institute of Communication Networks established in 1996. He has served in technical and organizing committees of many international conferences, and chairs the IFIP Working Group 6.10 on Photonic Networking.