IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...
The increase of IEEE 802.11’s bandwidth led to a deployment of many multimedia applications over wireless networks. Nevertheless, these applications impose stringent constraints...
In the recent years, there has been a growing interest in broadband satellite networks. Broadband satellite networks are designed to provide the required qualify of service (QoS) ...
Presently, many distributed multimedia systems adapt to their changing environments and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements by exchanging control and feedback data between server...
In next generation network (NGN), end-to-end QoS is one of the critical issues for real-time multimedia communications and applications. Such applications are sensitive to the avai...