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(More customer reviews)This book goes into the nuts and bolts of wireless QoS. I only read the parts relating to 802.11, so this review only applies to those parts.
The book focus on the following areas
*Study of the problems QoS is designed to solve
*Details of how the standards implement QoS
*Simulations and studies of the effect of tweaking QoS parameters on performance
Much of the book attempts to spoon-feed the reader the standard and various journal articles on optimizing performance under various conditions. I personally like books to spoon-feed difficult-to-read papers. My only complaint with this book is it does not spoon-feed enough. I often felt like I was reading an IEEE transaction paper. If you don't mind reading scholarly articles, the rigorous style used in this book will appeal to you.
It does not have too much in the way of practical rules of thumb, but the simulations it reviews can be directly applied to real-world problems.
For people interested in 802.11e, I also recommend Next Generation Wireless LANs by Perahia and Stacey. Perahia and Stacey go into more detail on QoS register fields and do a better job explaining it. If you do QoS-intensive work, though, you still need this book. Perahia and Stacey are a little clearer, but they only explain how the standard works. This book explains why they did it how they did it and how to tweak the parameters for various use cases.
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Focusing on an important and complicated topic in wireless network design, Wireless Quality of Service: Techniques, Standards, and Applications systematically addresses the quality-of-service (QoS) issues found in many types of popular wireless networks.
In each chapter, the book presents numerous QoS challenges encountered in real-world applications and delineates ways to overcome these obstacles. Some of the challenges explored are performance impairments in WLAN hotspots, video streaming applications, and broadband wireless access. The techniques and mechanisms covered to tackle these problems include medium access and call admission control techniques, a parameter tuning algorithm, the QoS-enabling features of IEEE 802.11e, a Markov chain model, a probe-based distributed admission control mechanism, topology-transparent scheduling protocols, and a novel multicast congestion control mechanism.
Addressing advanced topics and future directions, the expert contributors acknowledge the need for more research to solve several open issues. In the meantime, they offer innovative solutions to solve current QoS problems.
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