— It is widely recognized that the next-generation wireless networks will integrate heterogeneous wireless technologies. The complementary characteristics of cellular networks an...
— In this paper, we study the voice and data service provisioning in an integrated system of cellular and wireless local area networks (WLANs). To maximize the overall resource u...
— The rapid increase in the use of IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) for a diverse range of applications, has introduced an increased complexity into WLAN design, a...
In this paper an efficient scheduling mechanism for wireless local area networks (WLAN) is proposed. This innovative scheme, named hybrid HCCA-EDCA centralised scheme (HHECS), is b...
David Gozalvez, Jose F. Monserrat, Javier Goz&aacu...
— In recent years Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) or hotspots, as they are commonly known, have emerged as a promising networking platform to extend network connectivity in ...
Jorge Hortelano, Juan-Carlos Cano, Carlos Miguel T...
Abstract— The IEEE 802.11e standard has recently been ratified. This standard provides Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees in the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer of 802.11 Wir...
—Most of the deployed IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) use infrastructure Basic Service Set (BSS) in which an Access Point (AP) serves as a gateway between wired ...
— Multi-service support is an important motivation for interworking between the cellular network and wireless local area networks (WLANs). The complementary strengths of the two ...
— Wireless wide area networks (WWANs) and wireless local area networks (WLANs) have complementary characteristics which make them suitable to jointly offer an ubiquitous wireless...
Null data frames are a special but important type of frames in IEEE 802.11 based Wireless Local Area Networks (e.g., 802.11 WLANs). They are widely used for power management, chan...
Wenjun Gu, Zhimin Yang, Can Que, Dong Xuan, Weijia...