Wireless Quality of Service Techniques, Standards, and Applications

Quality of Service (QoS) is becoming an important and complicated issues in wireless network design, as current wireless networks are achieving more bandwidth through physical layer improvements. Wireless Quality-of-Service provides a comprehensive reference on the state-of-the-technology of QoS services in wireless networks, including fundamental concepts, techniques, protocols, system implementations, and recent advances. This book presents an introduction to different wireless networks and mechanisms, addressing key challenges in QoS service frameworks for diverse wireless networks and providing the latest IEEE standard specifications as well as standardization efforts.

Focusing on an important and complicated topic in wireless network design, Wireless Quality of Service: Techniques, Standards, and Applications systematically addresses the quality-of-service (QoS) issues found in many types of popular wireless networks. In each chapter, the book presents numerous QoS challenges encountered in real-world applications and delineates ways to overcome these obstacles. Some of the challenges explored are performance impairments in WLAN hotspots, video streaming applications, and broadband wireless access. The techniques and mechanisms covered to tackle these problems include medium access and call admission control techniques, a parameter tuning algorithm, the QoS-enabling features of IEEE 802.11e, a Markov chain model, a probe-based distributed admission control mechanism, topology-transparent scheduling protocols, and a novel multicast congestion control mechanism. Addressing advanced topics and future directions, the expert contributors acknowledge the need for more research to solve several open issues. In the meantime, they offer innovative solutions to solve current QoS problems.

QoS Support in Mobile Multimedia Networks. On the Improvement of QoS in WLANS Aspects and Applications. Policy-Based QoS Provision in WLAN Hotspots. QoS for Multimedia Streaming Applications over IEEE 802.11b and 802.11e WLANs. Performance Modeling and Analysis of IEEE 802.11e Contention Free Bursting Scheme under Unsaturated Traffic. QoS Services in WMANs. Soft QoS Support for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Based on End-to-End Path Probing and IEEE 802.11e Technology. QoS in Wireless Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks: A Cross-Layer Framework. Topology-Transparent Scheduling Protocols for QoS-Robust Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. Guaranteeing QoS in Wireless Sensor Networks. Congestion Control for Multicast Transmission over UMTS. QoS Service in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks. Index.

Maode Ma, Mieso K. Denko, Yan Zhang