Supporting telephone services using wireless LAN as the access network is an important application nowadays. The SIP and IEEE 802.11e are the two most promising protocols to suppo...
A state-of-the-art orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based access system, such as the DiffSeg system [1][2], uses a different set of transmission technologies, e.g...
Quality of Service (QoS) has been a major concern in the field of network management, even more so for emerging dynamic multimedia applications (Video on Demand, Telefony over IP...
—Emerging applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) require real-time quality of service (QoS) guarantees to be provided by the network. However, designing real-time schedu...
Nowadays, systems often integrate a variety of applications whose service requirements are heterogeneous. Consequently, systems must be able to concurrently serve applications whi...