The book covers the latest research in this field

I. Invited Paper.- Towards Networks with Cognitive Packets.- II. Internet I.- Users' WWW Access Statistics Measured at Proxy Servers: Case Study for Cache Hit Ratio and Response Time.- Characterisation of End-to-End Performance for Web Based File Server Repositories.- III. Internet II.- Analysis of World Wide Web traffic by nonparametric estimation techniques.- Design and Evaluation of New Communication Control Method to Support the Quality Change of Communication Line.- TCP over a multi-state Markovian path.- ISP's Internet Backbone Augmentation using Virtual Link Configuration in Link-state Routing.- IV. Mobile Telecommunication I.- A Local Anchor Scheme for Mobile IP.- A Distributed Channel Allocation Strategy based on A Threshold Scheme in Mobile Cellular Networks.- V. Mobile Telecommunication II.- The Feasibility Study on a Spectrum Overlaid System of N-CDMA and W-CDMA.- Mobility and Traffic Analysis for WCDMA Networks.- VI. QoS Control.- On the Tradeoff Between Effectiveness and Scalability of Measurement-based Admission Control.- Overload Control Mechanisms for Web Servers.- Performance Comparison of Different Class-and-Drop Treatment of Data and Acknowledgements in DiffServ IP Networks.- Providing QoS Guarantee for Individual Video Stream via Stochastic Admission Control.- VII. Invited Tutorial.- Stochastic Petri Nets and Their Applications.- VIII. Performance Analysis.- Dynamic Routing and Wavelength Assignment Using First Policy Iteration, Inhomogeneous Traffic Case.- Performability Analysis of TDMA Cellular Systems Based on Composite and Hierarchical Markov Chain Models.- The MM CPP/GE/c/L G-Queue at equilibrium.- Performance Analysis of the IEEE 1394 Serial Bus.- Author Index.

The advancement of key technologies in communication, such as optical and radio transmission, coding schemes, switching mechanisms etc. , has meant that communication networks are quickly growing to a larger-scale and higher speed than was ever anticipated. In terms of usage, Internet and real-time ap plications are expected to share a significant portion of the bandwidth in the next-generation of communication networks. Therefore, in order to achieve seamless and Quality of Service (QoS)-guaranteed transmission, regardless of source characteristics, extensive research into networking technologies is es sential. For the proper design, development and operation of emerging ideas on networking, further studies on the performance modeling and evaluation of networking are also encouraged. The International Conference on the Performance and QoS of Next Gen eration Networking (P&QNet2000) is being held from November 27 to 29, 2000, in Nagoya, Japan (Seto Campus of Nanzan University). This is the sixth international conference on the performance and other aspects of com munication networks. The conference is held once every three years in Japan (1985 in Tokyo; 1988, 1991, and 1994 in Kyoto; 1997 in Tsukuba). The confer ence is sponsored by the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group (WG) 6. 3 Performance of Communication Systems, 6. 4 High Performance Networking, and 7. 3 Computer System Modelling. Fi nancial supports are given by Commemorative Association for the Japan World Exposition (1970), Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research, and Nanzan University.