—The provision of very high data rates in a ubiquitous and fair manner throughout the service area is a great challenge for 4G and beyond-4G wireless networks. Towards that end, ...
UMTS/WLAN integration offers considerable benefits for the users as well as for the mobile network. As soon as coverage is available, a mobile user should be able to switch seamle...
Tom Van Leeuwen, Ingrid Moerman, Bart Dhoedt, Piet...
IEEE 802.16 WiMAX is a promising technology to provide broadband wireless networking access. IEEE 802.16j Mobile Multihop Relay standard introduces multihop relaying to WiMAX syst...
The IEEE 802.11e technology is receiving much interest due to the promising enhancements it will offer to wireless local area networks in terms of QoS support. Until now, research...
Carlos Miguel Tavares Calafate, Pietro Manzoni, Ma...
Although there are many MAC protocols that have been proposed for terrestrial wireless networks with a wide variety of aspects, these protocols cannot be applied directly in underw...