A selected collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Computer Networks, Architecture and Applications, arranged by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Madras, India, in January 1995. This conference was co-sponsored by the Computer Society of India. This book provides papers on the following topics: high-speed networks, multimedia systems and applications, protocol engineering, distributed systems and applications, and performance studies. All those concerned with networks and their applications should find this book of particular interest, especially project leaders and engineers, programme managers, researchers, professors and students. This book should also be of interest to researchers in communications and computer networks.