Call admission control (CAC) is one important QoS mechanism for maintaining performance of streaming media services. In this paper, we propose a novel CAC algorithm, which handles...
Recently, wireless local area network (WLAN) hotspots have been deployed in many areas (e.g., cafes, airports, university campuses). The new IEEE 802.11e standard further provides...
—Providing quality-of-service (QoS) assurances in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is difficult due to node mobility, contention for channel access, a lack of centralised coordin...
Although server technology provides a means to support a wide range of online services and applications, their ad-hoc configuration poses significant challenges to the performan...
—Allocating resources for multimedia traffic flows with real-time performance requirements is an important challenge for future packet networks. However, in large-scale networks,...