Abstract. As wireless sensor networks gain in popularity, many deployments are posing new challenges due to their diverse topologies and resource constraints. Previous work has sho...
IEEE 802.11e is a wireless local area networking standard introducing quality of service. It defines new MAC protocols, mainly HCF and EDCF. EDCF is a contentionbased channel acce...
Mounir Frikha, Fatma Ben Said, Lilia Maalej, Faiza...
—A variety of wireless network technologies have been developed and deployed, including GSM, UMTS, WiFi and WiMAX. The advantages of having an integrated heterogeneous wireless n...
The integration of different IP-based wireless networks, such as WiMAX and WiFi, becomes a 2-tier heterogeneous wireless networks is a more and more popular issue. In order to supp...
I-Shyan Hwang, Bor-Jiunn Hwang, K. Robert Lai, Lin...
— Wireless wide area networks (WWANs) and wireless local area networks (WLANs) have complementary characteristics which make them suitable to jointly offer an ubiquitous wireless...