A handy source for practicing engineers and researchers, this book offers collected examples of successful performance evaluation of high speed telecommunications switching fabrics such as ATM networks and high speed interconnection technology for computers. It emphasizes the performance evaluation of such switches as they apply to predicting a proposed system's performance through the use of statistical models -- a cost-saving way for communications engineers to test the design of a system without having to construct it.

As Internet traffic grows and demands for quality of service become stringent, researchers and engineers can turn to this go-to guide for tested and proven solutions. This text presents the latest developments in high performance switches and routers, coupled with step-by-step design guidance and more than 550 figures and examples to enable readers to grasp all the theories and algorithms used for design and implementation.

SPECTS'98 features many presentations of performance evaluation of computer & telecommunication systems. Among these, ATM systems, tracing techniques, teletraffic engineering, quality of service, memory systems, parallel & distributed processing, interconnection networks, network management, high-speed networking, high-performance computing/computers, algorithms, performance measurement, mobile computing & networking, architectures, workload characterization, congestion control & admission, resource allocation, wireless systems, protocols, & others. This year's proceedings includes top-quality papers from all over the world, with representation from academia, industry, business & government.