Abstract-- Two-tier networks, comprising a conventional cellular network overlaid with shorter range hotspots (e.g. femtocells, distributed antennas, or wired relays), offer an eco...
— User’s requirements have become a key factor for any Quality of Service (QoS) management model to succeed. The advent and rise of new broadband services and network architect...
Eva Ibarrola, Fidel Liberal, Ianire Taboada, Rodri...
Existing studies on the design of routing protocols for wireless ad hoc networks mainly focused on energy efficiency. However, in many real-time applications such as target trackin...
Reservation-based channel access has been shown to be effective in providing Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees (e.g., timeliness) in wireless embedded real-time applications suc...
Dinesh Rajan, Christian Poellabauer, Xiaobo Sharon...
—Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are distributed systems of wirelessly networked devices that allow retrieving video and audio streams, still images, and scalar senso...