Wireless Local Area Networks Quality of Service: An Engineering Perspective Osama Aboul-Magd
IISBN: 978-0-7381-5673-6
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200 pages
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Since conception, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), which is based on IEEE 802.11TM technologies, has seen a wide range of applications. With the introduction of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and other multimedia applications, WLAN users demand more than just connectivity based on best effort delivery. A specific requirement for WLAN is to support Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms that allow the differentiation between traffic types and the allocation of resources to application traffic that has to be delivered within a time limit or within a certain bound on the information loss.
Broadband Integrated Service Network (B-ISDN), based on Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology, presented issues related to packet-network QoS, which received much attention from industry and academia alike. Progress has been made on the understanding of the different QoS mechanisms such as shaping, policing, scheduling, and related deterministic delay bounds; while at the same time, the state of the art has advanced greatly as a result of the effort to support QoS based services on an IP platform.
Wireless Local Area Networks Quality of Service: An Engineering Perspective describes (in detail) the support of WLAN QoS as specified by IEEE Std 802.11e™. This book 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 the newest volume in the IEEE Standards Wireless Networks Series and is part of a comprehensive effort to deepen the understanding and implementation of IEEE 802Register Trademark R 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.
