Hansen and Tenbrink investigate gigabyte networks and their application to scientific visualization [8]. They explore various system topologies centered around the HIPPI switch. They analyze network load under some possible visualization applications and hypothesize on the effects of compression.
Lin, Hsieh, Du, Thomas and MacDonald study the performance characteristics of several types of workstations running on a local Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network [13]. They measure the throughput of four different application programming interfaces (API). They find the native API achieves the highest throughput, while TCP/IP delivers considerably less.
Frankowski and Riedl study the effects of delay jitter on the delivery of audio data [6]. They develop a heuristic for managing the audio playout buffer and compare it to several alternative heuristics. They find none of the heuristics is superior under all possible arrival distributions.