Technical Session 9: Thursday, April 6, 1995, 1:30 pm -- 3:00 pm

9A: QoS and Admission Control [Imperial]

1. Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation in Broadband ISDN using a Multilevel Optimal Control Approach, Andreas Pitsillides and Jim Lambert, Winburne University of Technology , Australia; David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh , U.S.A.

2. Resource and Connection Admission Control in Real-Time Transport Protocols with Deterministic QoS Guarantees, Shanzeng Guo and Nicolas D. Georganas, University of Ottawa , Canada

3. A Service with Bounded Degradation in Quality-of-Service Networks, Jorg Liebeherr and Dongwei Liao, University of Virginia , U.S.A.

4. An Approach to Pricing, Optimal Allocation and Quality of Service Provisioning in High-Speed Packet Networks, Jakka Sairamesh and Yechiam Yemini, Columbia University , U.S.A.; Donald F. Ferguson, IBM , U.S.A.

9B: Performance II [Arlington/Berkeley]

1. Maximal Average Loss Rates for a Single GPS Server System with Finite Buffers, James R. Yee and N. Thomas Gaarder, University of Hawaii at Manoa , U.S.A.

2. On Characterizing an ATM Source via the Sustainable Cell Rate Traffic Descriptor, Fabrice Guillemin, France Telecom, France; Catherine Rosenberg and Josee Mignault, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada

3. Traffic Characterization and Switch Utilization using a Deterministic Bounding Interval Dependent Traffic Model, Edward W. Knightly, University of California at Berkeley , U.S.A.; Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University , U.S.A.

4. Analysis of Delay Performance of ATM Signalling Links, Krishna Kant, Bellcore , U.S.A.

9C: Fairness [Georgian]

1. The Fairness of DQDB Networks with Slot Reuse, Mary K. Vernon, DePaul University , U.S.A.; Gregory B. Brewster, University of Wisconsin Madison , U.S.A.

2. On Slot Allocation for Time-Constrained Messages in DQDB Networks, Ching-Chih Han and Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan , U.S.A.; Chao-Ju Hou, University of Wisconsin Madison , U.S.A.

3. Fairness by Demand and Service Pattern Match: The Alpha Tuning Mechanism for DQDB MANs, Lakshmana N. Kumar and Christos Douligeris, University of Miami , U.S.A.

4. A Proof for lack of starvation in DQDB with and without Slot Reuse, Oran Sharon, Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Israel

9D: Architecture [Plaza]

1. V-Net: A Framework For a Versatile Network Architecture To Support Real-Time Communication Performance Guarantees, Brain Field and Taieb Znati and Daniel Mosse, University of Pittsburgh , U.S.A.

2. A Loop-free Path-finding Algorithm: Specification, Verification and Complexity, J. J. Garcia-Juna and Shree Murthy, University of California at Santa Cruz , U.S.A.

3. A Simple Architecture for ATM Switching Systems, Wang-Jiunn Cheng and Wen-Tsuen Chen, National Tsing Hua University , R.O.C.

4. Fast Bypass Algorithms for High-Speed Networks, Israel Cidon, Sun Microsystems, U.S.A.; Raphael Rom and Yuval Shavitt, Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Israel