New PDF release: Local Area Network Interconnection

By André Danthine, Olivier Bonaventure, Yves Baguette (auth.), Raif O. Onvural, Arne Nilsson (eds.)

There are many fascinating tendencies and advancements within the communications undefined, numerous of that are on the topic of advances in quickly packet switching, multi­ media companies, asynchronous move mode (ATM) and high-speed protocols. it kind of feels reasonable to assert that the face of networking has been speedily altering and the excellence among LANs, MANs, and WANs is turning into an increasing number of blurred. it truly is often believed within the that ATM represents the subsequent new release in networking. The adoption of ATM criteria via the learn and improvement neighborhood as a unifying expertise for communications that scales from neighborhood to broad zone has been met with nice enthusiasm from the company neighborhood and finish clients. Reflecting those traits, the technical software of the 1st foreign convention on LAN Interconnection includes papers addressing a variety of technical demanding situations and state-of-the-art stories. we're lucky to have assembled a powerful application committee, specialist audio system, and panelists. we wish to thank Professor Schwartz for his keynote speech. we wish to thank Professor Yannis Viniotis and his scholars for the instruction of the index. We gratefully recognize the beneficiant monetary aid of Dr. Jon Fjeld, Mr. Rick McGee, and Mr. David Witt, all of IBM-Research Triangle Park. We additionally wish to thank Ms. Mary Safford, our editor, and Mr. John Matzka, either at Plenum Press, for the book of the proceedings.