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Interoperability Among Broadband Wireless Technologies in a Testbed Environment

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As we move towards the next generation networks, one of the fundamental issues to consider is the integration of wireless technologies. Integrated networks will have impressive capabilities as well as cumbersome challenges in areas such as Radio Resource Management (RRM), Quality of Service (QoS), Security, Mobility, and Power Management. In this paper, we tackle one of the challenges facing researchers and developers in this area. The main objective of this research was to build an integrated WiFi–WiMAX network in a test-bed environment, and to investigate the effects of integration on the QoS performance. This study is based on practical deployment and measurements in a laboratory environment. We successfully implemented an integrated system and experimented with various QoS scenarios. A set of RRM schemes were defined for the integrated networks and actual results collected from network analyzer showed that the QoS requirements were met throughout the WiFi–WiMAX networks.

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Esmailpour, A. Interoperability Among Broadband Wireless Technologies in a Testbed Environment. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 23, 151–161 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-016-0306-3

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