This book presents a comprehensive collection of quality of service mechanisms for various access technologies and introduces existing and traditional approaches to traffic management for wireless technologies. With expert international contributions, this critical mass of knowledge covers both...

1. Hybrid approach to integrated QoS capable protocols for wireless LANs / Thomas Lagkas -- 2. Cross-layer scheduling with QoS support over a near-optimum distributed queueing protocol for wireless LANS / E. Kartsakli, J. Alonso-Zárate, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis -- 3. Delay constrained admission...

The recent rapid advances in wireless technologies have created a demand for high quality multimedia applications and services. These advanced multimedia applications give rise to a new set of challenges in providing Quality of Service (QoS) when delivering these services over wireless networks....

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