Sensor-based architecture for QoS provisioning and fast handoff management in WLANs

Annales des Telecommunications/Annals of Telecommunications

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 137-148

  Waharte, Sonia ^a   Xiao, Jin ^a   Boutaba, Raouf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Quality of service; Wireless mesh networks

Indexed keywords

HANDOFF LATENCY; HANDOFF MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

BANDWIDTH; MESH GENERATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 41749089330     PISSN: 00034347     EISSN: 19589395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12243-008-0017-6     Document Type: Article

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