—IEEE 802.11e standard develops a reference design to support the contention-free access. In the reference design, the packet transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration is calculat...
Abstract--This paper presents an end-to-end reservation protocol for quality-of-service (QoS) support in the medium access control layer of wireless multihop mesh networks. It rese...
E. Carlson, Christian Prehofer, Christian Bettstet...
Recently, the 802.11e Working Group (WG) has proposed the Hybrid Coordination Function (HCF), which has a HCF Controlled Channel Access (HCCA) and an Enhanced Distributed Coordinat...
Gennaro Boggia, Pietro Camarda, F. A. Favia, Luigi...
Despite its support of prioritized services, the IEEE 802.11e Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) cannot guarantee strict QoS required by real-time services such as voice a...
—The emerging IEEE 802.11e standard is expected to provide service differentiation and resource allocation for realtime traffic. To support the transmission of voice and multime...