SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS

NETWORKS IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA

Guest Editors -- I. F. Akyildiz, J. Mollenauer, I. Chlamtac, and C. Szabo

A Scheme for High-Performance LAN Interconnection Across Public MAN's

A. N. Tantawy and M. Zitterbart

Internetting LAN's and MAN's to B-ISDN's for Connectionless Traffic Support

M. Gerla, T.-Y. C. Tai and G. Gallassi

Efficient Use of Protocol Stacks for LAN/MAN-ATM Interworking

I. S. Venieris, J. D. Angelopoulos, and G. I. Stassinopoulos

Topological Design of Interconnected LAN/MAN Networks

C. Ersoy and S. S. Panwar

A Local Fairness Algorithm for Gigabit LAN's/MAN's with Spatial Reuse

J. S.-C. Chen, I. Cidon, and Y. Ofek

Extended Distributed Queueing for Integrated Services

G. Mercankosk, Z. L. Budrikis, and A. Cantoni

Dual Bus MAN's with Multiple-Priority Traffic

J. Liebeherr, I. F. Akyildiz, and A. N. Tantawi

The No Slot Wasting Bandwidth Balancing Mechanism for Dual Bus Architectures

D. Karvelas and M. Papamichail

A Dynamic Bandwidth-Allocation-Based Priority Mechanism for the p_i-Persistent Protocol for MAN's

G. J. Miler and M. Paterakis

FQDB: A Fair Multisegment MAC Protocol for Dual Bus Networks

F. Borgonovo, A. Lambardo, S. Palazzo, and D. Panno

Slot Pre-Using in IEEE 802.6 Metropolitan Area Networks

A. R. Pach, S. Palazzo, and D. Panno

Rate-Based Head End Controlled Bandwidth Allocation in Unidirectional Bus Metropolitan Area Networks

H. Xie and L. F. Merakos

CBRMA++/SR: On the Design of a MAN/WAN MAC Protocol for High-Speed Networks

C. Baransel, W. Dobosiewicz, and P. Gburzynski

A Comparison of Linear and Mesh Topologies -- DQDB and the Manhattan Street Network

N. F. Maxemchuk and R. Krishnan

Slot Reuse in MAC Protocols for MAN's

M. A. Marsan, C. Casetti, S. M. Grasso, and F. Neri

An Approximate Analysis of the Performance of Deflection Routing in Regular Networks

A. K. Choudhury and V. O. K. Li

Alpha Channel: A Network Framework to Support Application Real-Time Performance Guarantees

B. Field and T. Znati

Mobile and Wireless Computing Networks

ATM LANs: Implementations and Experiences with an Emerging Technology

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