Author Description

The purpose of this proceedings is to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas among researchers from around the world about the design & performance of computer systems, network architectures, & communications protocols in parallel & distributed environments. Original technical papers addressing all aspects of analysis design, modeling, & performance evaluation of communication networks & distributed systems are published in this conference proceedings. Topics of interest include: Networks Architectures, High-Speed Networks, ATM, Interconnection Networks, Wireless Networks, Distributed Systems, Mobile Computing, Multimedia Systems, Real-Time Systems, Video-on-Demand Systems, Distributed Database Systems, Fault-Tolerant Systems, Memory Systems, Operating Systems, File & I/O Systems, & Web-Based Computing.