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An Autonomic QoS-centric Architecture for Integrated Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

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In this paper the problem of seamless mobility and proficient joint radio resource management over an all-IP internetworked wireless heterogeneous environment is addressed. Nodes’ autonomicity is envisioned as the enabler to devise a Quality of Service (QoS) aware architecture for supporting a variety of services, founded on a common utility based framework that provides enhanced flexibility in reflecting different access networks’ type of resources and diverse QoS prerequisites, under a unified QoS-aware resource allocation optimization problem. This allows a more in-depth intrinsic wireless network convergence, beyond All-IP, driven by QoS-oriented resource management. This vision is demonstrated and instantiated for integrated WLAN and cellular (both CDMA and OFDMA) networks, providing a viable path towards the evolution and realization of the future wireless networking paradigm. Initial numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture and reveal the benefits of such a service oriented paradigm against other existing access oriented autonomic designs.

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This work has been partially supported by EC EFIPSANS project (INFSO-ICT-215549).

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, 15780, Greece

    Georgios Aristomenopoulos, Timotheos Kastrinogiannis & Symeon Papavassiliou

  2. Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd, London, UK

    Zhaojun Li

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Aristomenopoulos, G., Kastrinogiannis, T., Li, Z. et al. An Autonomic QoS-centric Architecture for Integrated Heterogeneous Wireless Networks. Mobile Netw Appl 16, 490–504 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-011-0319-1

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