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Proceedings of the fall 1996 conference, containing papers in sections on scheduling, protocol design, protocol testing and validation, multicasting, routing, performance improvement and analysis, congestion control, ATM, and channel allocation and media access. Topics include protocol portability through module encapsulation, flow control techniques for multicasting in gigabit networks, bounded access delay on high-speed bus networks, and token-bank leaky bucket mechanisms for group connections in ATM networks. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.