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

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

535

Lastpage

540

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Signal Processing, 1999 IEEE 3rd Workshop on

Conference_Location

Copenhagen

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5610-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSP.1999.793907

Filename

793907