Admission control in IEEE 802.11e wireless LANs.

Admission control in IEEE 802.11e wireless LANs.

Although IEEE 802.11 based wireless local area networks have become more and more popular due to low cost and easy deployment, they can only provide best effort services and do not have quality of service supports for multimedia applications. Recently, a new standard, IEEE 802.11e, has been proposed...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 19, 4 (2005).
Main Author: Deyun Gao
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
IEEE 802.11e wireless LANs.
MAC-layer QoS mechanisms.
QoS supports.
Admission control.
Contention-based channel access.
Controlled channel access.
Enhanced distributed channel access.
Hybrid coordination function.
Medium access control mechanism.
Multimedia applications.
Protocols.
Quality of service.
Wireless local area networks.