Enhancing performance of IP service in HIPERLAN/2 networks

Author

Lampropoulos, George ; Fragkiadakis, Nick ; Passas, Nikos

Author_Institution

Commun. Networks Lab., Athens Univ., Greece

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

27-30 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

892

Abstract

The demand for multimedia applications nowadays has driven the existing wireless IP technologies towards the direction of more robust and effective solutions. Performance enhancing proxies (PEPs) are featuring as a proper candidate in order to provide with the performance enhancements required The solution evaluated in this paper is a PEP, referred to as wireless adaptation layer (WAL), which aims at offering traffic differentiation and QoS improvements over a wide variety of existing wireless technologies, such as IEEE 802.11b, Bluetooth and HIPERLAN/2. Our focus is on the HIPERLAN/2 wireless infrastructure, which is tested with the presence of the WAL under various traffic conditions. A detailed simulation model shows the improvement in QoS offered by the WAL.

Keywords

Internet; multimedia communication; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; HIPERLAN/2 networks; IP service; PEPs; QoS improvements; WAL; multimedia applications; performance; performance enhancing proxies; traffic conditions; traffic differentiation; wireless adaptation layer; wireless infrastructure; Bluetooth; Communication networks; Informatics; Intelligent networks; Laboratories; Protocols; Quality of service; Robustness; Telecommunication standards; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 2002. The 5th International Symposium on

ISSN

1347-6890

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7442-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPMC.2002.1088306

Filename

1088306