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In this paper, we introduce distributed caching of videos at the base-stations of the Radio Access Network (RAN) as a way to reduce the need to bring requested videos from Internet CDNs, thereby reducing backhaul transmission, improving video quality of experience — delay and video stalling — and increasing overall network capacity to support more number of simultaneous video requests. Unlike Internet...
Smart Grid (SG) is characterized by two-way flow of electricity and information and is capable of monitoring everything from power plants and customer preference to individual appliances. In this paper, we focus on applying 3GPP LTE release 8 technology to build a high-reliable and low-latency Distribution Automation (DA) network. Based on the documents released by Nation Institute of Standard and...
The widespread use of heterogeneous wireless network technologies and their integration with multi-mode terminals enable users to be associated to the best available networks according to user preferences and application specific requirements. We study a user-centric quality of experience based resource allocation problem with several operators, several types of users and different classes of services...
This paper addresses the Common Radio Resources Management of a Heterogeneous Network composed of three different Radio Access Network (RANs): UMTS, Wi-Fi and Mobile-WiMAX. The network is managed by an algorithm based on a priority table, user sessions being steered preferentially to a given RAN according to the service type. Six services are defined, including Voice, Web browsing and Email. A time-based,...
The Next Generation Access Networks (NGAN) are the new step forward to deliver broadband services and to facilitate the integration of different technologies. The real challenge faced by 10GEPON new standard IEEE 803.3av is to upgrade the channel capacity for both upstream and downstream channels gracefully, while maintaining the logical layer intact ensuring the coexistence with legacy 1 Gb/s (IEEE...
Designing a heterogeneous network including systems providing different QoS, such as the emerging WiMAX, is a difficult task. The integration of a WiMAX access system with Differentiated Services (DiffServ) enhances the overall performance of the network. This paper investigates the interworking between WiMAX and DiffServ networks, by measuring one-way delay, jitter and packet drop rate of VoIP traffic...
The integration of Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs) and IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) has been lately presented as a promising fiber-wireless (FiWi) broadband access network. Conversely, lightweight layer-2 virtual private networks (VPNs) over FiWi, which can provide bandwidth guarantee to the respective users, were only recently addressed by Dhaini et. al. In this paper, WiMAX-VPON, the framework...
QoS provisioning is an important issue in the deployment of broadband wireless access networks. The scheduling scheme is essential to guarantee the QoS requirements of different service classes. WiMAX Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system specifies the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol mapping in a rectangular shape manner. In this paper, we propose a...
This paper focuses on improving the scheduling capabilities of the IEEE 802.16-2005 broadband wireless networks, through utilizing multi-queuing algorithms and switching between those queuing algorithms over time to maximize the performance of the WiMAX system. The proposed algorithm aims to improve throughput of high priority traffic in congested networks, without violating the right of lower-priority-traffic...
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) are experiencing higher data rate and radius coverage, making possible high quality audio and video transmission. An IPTV system can be built in any home using the Wireless IEEE 802.11n standard because it provides enough data rate and range than the other IEEE 802.11 variants. IEEE 802.1a/b/g standards do not offer enough bandwidth to provide several ITPV channels...
Polling schemes in the IEEE 802 MAC layer provide some QoS support for multimedia applications above what can be provided with the contention scheme. However, in highly loaded environments, reliability and efficiency remain the main challenges for current detailed polling schemes. In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of polling medium access, and propose a novel mechanism, the Registered...
The International Society of Automation has recently released ISA100.11a as a standard for reliable and security application in industrial application, in addition to be compatible with existing wired and wireless networks. ISA100.11a, like WirelessHART, uses TDMA scheme in medium access layer to provide deterministic services. However ISA100.11a adopts the CSMA-CA mechanism with priorities for, e...
In 3G cellular networks, the release of radio resources is controlled by inactivity timers. However, the timeout value itself, also known as the tail time, can last up to 15 seconds due to the necessity of trading off resource utilization efficiency for low management overhead and good stability, thus wasting considerable amount of radio resources and battery energy at user handsets. In this paper,...
Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) offers QoS-aware broadband access through a wireless medium, being IEEE 802.16 one of the BWA standards. In it, the Base Station (BS) is responsible of allocating the required bandwidth by the rest of nodes, acting as a central controller. The other nodes, Subscriber Stations (SSs), have to send a bandwidth request to give the BS the knowledge about their needs, taking...
This paper proposes efficient analytical models to dimension the required transport bandwidths for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) access network for the elastic Internet traffic (which is carried by the TCP protocol). The dimensioning models are based on the use of Processor Sharing queuing theory to guarantee a desired end-to-end application QoS target. For validating the analytical dimensioning models,...
Despite recent interests in developing vertical handoff decision algorithms, an essential component of the architecture of the next generation heterogeneous wireless networks, very few studies have so far reported any meaningful comparative performance analysis. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by presenting a comprehensive study on the performance of three vertical handoff decision...
One of main feature of next generation of mobile networks is an integration of existing cellular systems with other wireless access technologies. In order to realize a seamless vertical handover (inter-RAT handover) among these different access technologies, a multi-interfaced mobile station is expected to communicate simultaneously on various network interfaces (i.e. to be multihomed) to achieve...
The IEEE 802.16 is a well known set of standards, which have been developed for global deployment of Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) in order to provide broadband wireless accesses supporting the integrated transmission of multimedia applications with different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. In order to achieve the QoS requirements of multimedia applications, the IEEE 802.16 standards offers...
IEEE 802.16j is defining standards for Multihop Relay (MR) networks. With many low cost Relay Stations (RSs), a Base Station (BS) can diminish the radio range but extend the coverage by RSs. Besides, frequency can be reused in different RSs. When using real-time services in an 802.16j MR network, fixed bandwidth is allocated to each intermediate hop along the path between the MS and the MR-BS. The...
This paper presents a VoIP packet loss model applicable to wireless access transmission media and usable for determination of admissible call number threshold value. The main contribution is a more realistic approach for VoIP packet loss evaluation. The known bufferless fluid-flow method is applied but a new simple exact formula for ACT voice packets loss is developed. The suggested method is evaluated...
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