Admission control plays a very important role in wireless systems, as it is one of the basic mechanisms for ensuring the quality of service offered to users. Based on the availabl...
Elias Z. Tragos, George Tsiropoulos, George T. Kar...
This paper describes an experiment performed on Wide Area Network to assess and fairly compare the Quality of Service provided by a large family of failure detectors. Failure dete...
To be an effective platform for performance-sensitive realtime systems, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) distributed object computing (DOC) middleware must support application qual...
Carlos O'Ryan, Douglas C. Schmidt, Fred Kuhns, Mar...
Abstract -- In this paper, we study the provision of perclass QoS for IEEE 802.11e Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) WLANs. We propose two mechanisms, called BIWF-SP and I...
IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...