Contents: 1. Introduction. p. 1 -- 2. Background and related work. p. 15 -- 3.Workload modeling and traffic generation. p. 37 -- 4. Experimental methodology. p. 69 -- 5. Results: Effects of round trip times and connection structutres on application and network performance. p. 109 -- 6. Additional results. p. 245 -- 7. Conclusion. p. 291 Incluye: referencias bibliográficas.-- Corresponde al suministro no. 33711
