Implementing QoS Support in a Wireless Home Network

Author

Laulajainen, Jukka-Pekka

Author_Institution

VTT Tech. Res. Centre of Finland, Oulu

fYear

2008

fDate

March 31 2008-April 3 2008

Firstpage

3273

Lastpage

3278

Abstract

Currently used wireless local area networks (WLAN) do not inherently support Quality of Service (QoS). Neither are there good solutions for mapping the application requirements to medium access control layer QoS mechanisms available. This paper addresses the QoS issues of converged home networks. We review the currently available QoS mechanisms for WLAN QoS and the UPnP QoS architecture for easy QoS configuration and present our work-in-progress toward a complete solution for providing QoS in home environment. Our focus is on a novel distributed gaming system, but the proposed solution can be used to support any other QoS-demanding application.

Keywords

access protocols; home computing; quality of service; wireless LAN; UPnP QoS architecture; distributed gaming system; medium access control layer; quality of service; universal plug and play; wireless home network; wireless local area network; Cable TV; Communications Society; Home automation; IP networks; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Quality of service; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2008. WCNC 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1997-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2008.571

Filename

4489602