Multimedia Wireless Networks: Technologies, Standards and QoS

Multimedia Wireless Networks: Technologies, Standards and QoS
by Aura Ganz, Zvi Ganz, Kitti Wongthavarawat

Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (September 15, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0130460990

From the Back Cover

* Integrating QoS in wireless multimedia network design
* Delivering QoS in WLANs, WPANs, WMANs, cellular, and satellite networks
* Covers every leading current and emerging wireless network standard

Integrate QoS into virtually any multimedia wireless network

From entertainment to telephony, emerging wireless systems will make possible a new generation of wireless multimedia applications. To satisfy users, network designers and developers must integrate end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) support throughout all their underlying networks: WANs, WLANs, WPANs, and “last-mile” WLL or satellite distribution systems. However, wireless network standards typically focus on signaling, leaving crucial QoS issues to implementers. Multimedia Wireless Networks is the first book to help network professionals systematically address QoS in today’s most important wireless networks — and tomorrow’s.

* Why users’ wireless multimedia performance requirements will require extensive QoS support
* The fundamentals of QoS — and how they drive network design
* WLAN standards from the multimedia network designer’s viewpoint: IEEE 802.11, HiperLAN, and HomeRF
* Wireless MANs: introducing the new 802.16 WirelessMAN standard
* Integrating QoS into IEEE 802.15 and Bluetooth wireless personal area networks
* QoS in current and emerging cellular and satellite networks

About the Author
AURA GANZ is Associate Professor and Director of the Multimedia Networking Laboratory at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has authored 150 papers, and keynoted the NSF-sponsored workshop in mobile computing. She holds a Ph.D in computer science from the Technion in Israel. ZVI GANZ has 15 years experience in network design, operations research, and industrial engineering. He has designed protocols, fixed wireless systems, and WLAN QoS systems. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts. KITTI WONGTHAVARAWAT holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has worked since 1997 at the Multimedia Networking Laboratory, researching resource management and QoS in wireless networks. The authors are also associates of Ganz Associates (www. GanzAssociates.com) that provides network design services.

Tags:Prentice Hall PTR, QoS, wireless
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