Quality of service support for wireless access to IP networks

Author

Gingras, Donald F. ; Lapic, Stephan K.

Author_Institution

SPAWAR Syst. Centre, San Diego, CA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1288

Abstract

The next generation of mobile communication devices will support a wide range of services as well as support an integrated mix of traffic (i.e., voice, data and video) over TCP/IP networks. These service requirements can only be met if the mobile communication devices provide quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees. In a wireless network the QoS support is largely dependent on the medium access control (MAC) protocol. In this paper a MAC protocol for the air interface between mobile devices and TCP/IP networks that provides QoS guarantees is presented and evaluated via simulation

Keywords

access protocols; cellular radio; mobile radio; packet radio networks; quality of service; radio access networks; IP networks; MAC protocol; QoS guarantees; QoS support; TCP/IP networks; air interface; cellular-like network; medium access control protocol; mobile communication; quality of service support; service requirements; wireless access; Access protocols; Communication system traffic control; IP networks; Media Access Protocol; Mobile communication; Next generation networking; Quality of service; TCPIP; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 1999. WCNC. 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5668-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.1999.796945

Filename

796945