Efficient Wireless MAC Protocols- Analyzing Quality of Service in Wireless Networks

ISBN-13: 9783836424363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 124 str.

Alexander Mueller

Opis

In the last few years WLANs have become more and more popular, enablingaccess to the Internet and to private or company-internal networks all overthe place. With the increasing amount of users sharing one and the samemedium, running demanding applications with the need of exchanging largerand larger quantities of data, the necessity has grown to provide informationinterchange with satisfactory quality of service (QoS). The latter propertyrequires among other things a MAC protocol enabling an efficient and fairmedium access for competing network participants. In this book, differentMAC schemes are investigated under the aspect of QoS, examining their efficiencyand displaying their strengths and weaknesses. Those key elementswhich influence the QoS are tried to be analyzed and based on these resultssome propositions are presented which could be implemented in a newprotocol to provide a satisfying QoS. The intention of this book is to help thereader get familiarized with existing MAC protocols, allow deeper understandingof the general functionality of medium access mechanisms and enablecertain acquirement of sensitivity in the context of recognizing MAC schemeimmanent problems. The book is aimed at computer scientists, students andinterested readers who want to understand in more detail one of the mainelements of QoS to efficiently support wireless data communication.