Title :
Architecture for a Windows NT wireless LAN multimedia terminal
Author :
Hännikäinen, Marko ; Vanhatupa, Timo ; Lemiläinen, Jussi ; Hämäläinen, Timu ; Saarinen, Jukka
Author_Institution :
Signal Process. Lab., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland
Abstract :
The support for multimedia services in wireless access networks is challenging to implement, due to an unreliable and bandwidth-limited wireless medium. In addition, the widely used applications and protocols generally lack the support for quality-of-service (QoS) parameters. This paper presents the architecture of a multimedia wireless LAN terminal. The terminal is implemented using a custom network demonstrator platform connected to a Windows NT workstation. The system provides a separate management plane for configuring the service parameters of a proprietary wireless medium access control (MAC) protocol. Also, native applications that are capable of accessing the MAC QoS parameters directly are supported
Keywords :
access protocols; computer architecture; graphical user interfaces; interactive terminals; multimedia systems; operating systems (computers); quality of service; radio access networks; wireless LAN; Microsoft Windows NT workstation; custom network demonstrator platform; management plane; medium access control protocol; multimedia services; multimedia terminal architecture; multimedia wireless LAN terminal; native applications; proprietary wireless MAC protocol; service parameter configuration; service quality parameters; unreliable bandwidth-limited wireless medium; wireless access networks; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; GSM; Laboratories; Media Access Protocol; Multimedia systems; Quality of service; Signal processing; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Signal Processing, 1999 IEEE 3rd Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5610-1
DOI :
10.1109/MMSP.1999.793907
