IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications IEEE JOURNAL ON

SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS


September 1986, Volume SAC-4, Number 6
NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Guest Editor -- A. Leon-Garcia

Guest Editorial --
A. Leon-Garcia


PAPERS
Polling and Token Passing Systems
Computation of the Variance of the Waiting Time for Token Rings
M. J. Ferguson

Approximate Delay Analysis and Results for Asymmetric Token Passing and Polling Networks
J. W. M. Pang and R. W. Donaldson

Diffusion Approximation for a Token Ring System with Nonexhaustive Service
G. Kimura and Y. Takahashi

Performance Analysis of a Polling System with Single Buffers and Its Application to Interconnected Networks
T. Takine, Y. Takahashi, and T. Hasegawa

Average Delay Approximation of M/G/1 Cyclic Service queues with Bernoulli Schedules
L. Servi
Performance of Integrated Packet Voice/Data Token Passing Rings
D. Karvelas and A. Leon-Garcia

Voice-Data Systems
Characterizing Superposition Arrival Processes in Packet Multiplexers for Voice and Data
K. Sriram and W. Whitt

Models for Analysis of Packet voice Communication Systems
J. N. Daigle and J. D. Langford

A Markov Modulated Characterization of Packetized Voice and Data Traffic and Related Statistical Multiplexer Performance
H. Heffes and D. M. Lucantoni

Bandwidth Allocation Strategies in Wide-Band Integrated Networks
B. Kraimeche and M. Schwartz

Queueing Networks
Approximate Analysis of Time-Synchronous Packet Networks
A. M. Viterbi

Transient Analysis of Markovian Queueing Systems and Its Application to Congestion Control Modeling
H. van As

Diffusion approximations for Time-Dependent Queueing Systems
A. Duda

A Recursive Approximation Technique for a Combined Source Queueing Model
J. S. Kaufman

Computable Bounds for Conditional Steady-State Probabilities in Large Markov Chains and Queueing Models
P.-J. Courtois and P. Semal

The Asymptotic Analysis of Some Packet Radio Networks
E. Pinsky and Y. Yemini

Applications and Measurement
Backbone Network Design and Performance Analysis: A Methodology for Packet-Switching Networks
C. L. Monma and D. D. Sheng

A Model for Telephone Networks and Its Use for Routing Optimization Purposes
J.-M. Garcia, F. LeGall, and J. Bernussou

End-to-End Performance Modeling of Local Area Networks
L. C. Mitchell and D. A. Lide

Packet Trains -- Measurements and a New Model for Computer Network Traffic
R. Jain and S. Routhier


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