About the Book Wireless Local Area Networks Quality of Service: An Engineering Perspective describes the support of WLAN QoS as specified by IEEE Std 802.11e™. It explains WLAN QoS standards and provides a rational for the range of design choices based upon the characteristics of the wireless media. The book also maps WLAN QoS to well-known QoS architectures. This mapping is necessary to facilitate compatibility when WLAN is deployed in an environment where different networking technologies are in use with different QoS architectures.
Wireless Local Area Networks Quality of Service: An Engineering Perspective is part of a comprehensive effort to deepen the understanding and implementation of IEEE 802® wireless standards.
Wireless Local Area Networks Quality of Service: An Engineering Perspective explains in detail:
• How to better understand the mechanisms and features of WLAN QoS using a clear and simple method that goes further than what can be obtained by just reading the standard documents;
• WLAN QoS basic operation;
• How WLAN QoS is related to other QoS architectures especially IP and Ethernet QoS, and the related systemic issues;
• How to tackle WLAN QoS main issues including admission control, scheduling, and buffer management; and
• How to engineer a WLAN-based network to support QoS-based applications.
