Technical Session 7: Wednesday, April 5, 1995, 3:30 pm -- 5:00 pm

7A: Admission Control [Imperial]

1. Estimation of Aggregate Effective Bandwidth for Traffic Admission in ATM Networks, Zbigniew Dziong, Boris Shukhman and Lorne G. Mason, INRS-Telecommunications, Canada

2. Design of Real-Time Admission Control Algorithms with Priority Support, Apostolos Dailianas, Washington University , U.S.A.; Andreas Bovopoulos, Chipcom Corp., U.S.A.

3. Preemption-Based Admission Control in Multimedia Multiparty Communications, Nachum Shacham, SRI International , U.S.A.

4. Characterization Based Connection Control for Guaranteed Services in High Speed Networks, Song Chong and San-qi Li, University of Texas at Austin , U.S.A.

7B: Application [Arlington/Berkeley]

1. An Investigation of Application Level Performance in ATM Networks, Israel Cidon, Sun Microsystems, U.S.A.; Roch Guerin, IBM , U.S.A.; Asad Khamisy, Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Israel

2. Document Marking and Identification using both Line and Word Shifting, S. H. Low and N. F. Maxemchuk and J. T. Brassil and L. O'Gorman, AT&T Bell Laboratories , U.S.A.

3. Usage of VSAT for TCP/IP Based LAN Interconnection, Javier Gavilan and Alejandro Becerra and Ignacio Berberana, Radiocommunications Systems, Spain

4. Usage-Based Pricing of Packet Data Generated by a Heterogeneous User Population, M. L. Honig, Bellcore , U.S.A.; K. Steiglitz, Princeton University , U.S.A.

7C: Special Topics II [Georgian]

1. A Polynomial-Time Optimal Synchronous Bandwidth Allocation Scheme for the Timed-Token MAC Protocol, Ching-Chih Han and Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan , U.S.A.

2. On Optimal Placement of Erasure Nodes on a Dual Bus Network, Sibabrata Ray and Sarit Mukherjee, University of Nebraska at Lincoln , U.S.A.

3. Local Fairness in General-Topology Networks with Convergence Routing, Alain Mayer, Columbia University , U.S.A.; Yoram Ofek and Moti Yung, IBM , U.S.A.

4. Multi-hour, Multi-Traffic Class Network Design for Virtual Path-based Wide-Area Dynamically Reconfigurable ATM Networks, Deep Medhi, University of Missouri at Kansas City , U.S.A.

7D: Multi-Channel Optical Networks [Plaza]

1. DTCAP-A Distributed Tunable-Channel Access Protocol for Multi- Channel Photonic Dual Bus Networks, Nen-Fu Huang and Shiann-Tsong Sheu, National Tsing Hua University , R.O.C.

2. Optical Local Area Networks (LANS) Using Wavelength-Selective Couplers, Terence D. Todd and Adrian M. Grah and Oliver Barkovic, McMaster University , U.S.A.

3. Analysis of Multipath Impulse Response of Diffuse and Quasi-Diffuse Optical Links for IR-WLAN, Rafael Perez-Jimenez and Victor M. Melian and Manuel J. Betancor, University of Las Palmas G.C. , Spain

4. Multi-Channel Copy Networks: Architecture, Performance model, Fairness, and Cell Sequencing, P. S. Min and H. Saidi and A. Chandra, Washington University , U.S.A.; M. V. Hegde, Louisiana State University , U.S.A.