The anticipated deployment of IEEE 802.16-based wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) will usher a new era in broadband wireless communications. The adoption of the WiMAX te...
Pedro Neves, Ricardo Matos, Bruno Sousa, Giada Lan...
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
The rapid growth of broadband access has popularized multimedia services, which nowadays contribute to a large part of Internet traffic. Among this content, the broadcasting of li...
Femto cells are a cost-effective means of providing ubiquitous connectivity in future broadband wireless networks. While their primary purpose has been to improve coverage in curr...
—This paper presents an evaluation of the Quality of Service Signalling Layer Protocol (QoS-NSLP) of the NSIS (Next Steps In Signalling) protocol suite. The QoS-NSLP in combinati...