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Design and Evaluation of a QoS-aware Framework for HIPERLAN/2 Networks

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Recent advances on wireless technology are enabling the design and deployment of multiservice wireless networks. In order to be able to meet the QoS requirements of the various applications, it is essential to deploy QoS provisioning mechanisms. In this paper, we present a QoS framework to support various types of services in a wireless networking environment. Under this QoS framework, we propose various resource request mechanisms. We carry out a comparative study of the proposed schemes. Our simulation results show the effectiveness of the mechanisms when supporting different services, such as video, voice, best-effort and background traffic.

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    Francisco M. Delicado, Pedro Cuenca, Luis Orozco-Barbosa & Antonio Garrido

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Francisco M. Delicado This author received his M.Sc. degree in Physics (Electronics and Computer Science) from the University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain in 1995. He is currently a Ph.D. degree student in the Department of Computer Engineering at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. His research interests include high-performance networks, specially wireless LAN, QoS over WLAN, video compression, video transmission and error-resilient protocol architectures.

Pedro Cuenca This author received his M.Sc. degree in Physics (Electronics and Computer Science, award extraordinary) from the University of Valencia in 1994. He got his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 1999 from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. In 1995 he joined the Department de Computer Engineering at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He is currently an Associate Professor of Communications and Computer Networks. He has also been a visiting researcher at The Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham (England) and at the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa (Canada). His research topics are centered in the area of high-performance networks, wireless LAN, video compression, QoS video transmission and error-resilient protocol architectures. He has served in the organization of International Conferences as Session Chair. He has been reviewer for several Journals and for several International Conferences. He is a member of the IFIP 6.8 Working Group and a member of the IEEE.

Luis Orozco-Barbosa This author received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico, in 1979, the Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies from ENSIMAG, France, in 1984 and the Doctorat de l'Universite from Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France, in 1987, both in computer science. From 1991 to 2002, he was a Faculty Member of Computer Engineering at the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, Canada. In 2002, he joined the Department of Computer Engineering at Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (SPAIN) where he is currently Director of the Albacete Research Institute of Informatics. He has published over 180 papers in international Journals and Conferences on computer networks and performance evaluation. His current research interests include Internet protocols, video communications, wireless networks, traffic modeling and performance evaluation. He is a member of the IEEE.

Antonio Garrido This author received the degree in physics (electronics and computer science) and the Ph.D. degrees from the University of Granada, Spain, in 1986 and University of Valencia, Spain, in 1991, respectively. In 1986, he joined the Department of Computer Engineering at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, where he is currently a Full Professor of Computer Architecture and Technology and Dean of the EscuelaPolitecnica Superior de Albacete (School of Computer Engineering). His research interests include high-performance networks, telemedicine, video compression, and video transmission. He has published over 40 papers in international journals conferences on performance evaluation of parallel computer and communications systems and compression and transmission in high-speed networks. He has led several research projects in telemedicine, computer networks and advanced computer system architectures.

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Delicado, F.M., Cuenca, P., Orozco-Barbosa, L. et al. Design and Evaluation of a QoS-aware Framework for HIPERLAN/2 Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 34, 67–90 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-8727-9

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