Enabling End-to-End QoS over Hybrid Wired-Wireless Networks |
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Authors: | Liqiang Zhang Sherali Zeadally |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, Indiana 46634, USA;(2) 2Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA |
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Abstract: | Providing end-to-end parameterized QoS is desirable for many network applications and has received a lot of attention in recent years. However, it remains a challenge, especially over hybrid networks involving both wired networks and wireless access segments (such as IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs)). The difficulty in achieving such QoS arises mainly because wireless segments often constitute “gaps" in terms of resource guarantee, due to the lack of efficient resource scheduling and management ability over shared wireless media, as well as the lack of an appropriate QoS signaling interface to seamlessly embed these wireless segments into an end-to-end QoS signaling system. In this paper, we consider the scenario where an IEEE 802.11 wireless node wishes to make an end-to-end resource reservation to a remote wired Internet node and vice versa. We propose Wireless Subnet Bandwidth Manager (Wireless SBM), an extension of SBM protocol to WLANs, to provide seamless end-to-end resource reservations. Wireless SBM utilizes the enhanced resource management ability provided by Hybrid Coordination Function (introduced in the upcoming IEEE 802.11e standard) to provide parameterized resource reservation and admission control. |
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Keywords: | quality of service end-to-end hybrid networks wireless local area networks signaling protocols performance evaluation |
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