TY - GEN
T1 - An integrated WiMAX/WiFi architecture with QoS consistency over broadband wireless networks
AU - Lin, Hui Tang
AU - Lin, Ying You
AU - Chang, Wang Rong
AU - Cheng, Rung Shiang
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - WiMAX and WiFi have emerged as promising broadband access solutions for the latest generation of wireless MANs and LANs, respectively. Their complementary features enable the use of WiMAX as a backhaul service to connect multiple dispersed WiFi hotspots to the Internet. This study proposes an integrated architecture utilizing a novel WiMAX/WiFi Access Point (W2-AP) device to effectively combine the WiMAX and WiFi technologies. In the proposed architecture, the protocol operation of the WiFi hotspots is the same as that of the WiMAX system. As a result, the WiFi network can support connection-oriented transmissions and QoS in a similar fashion to the WiMAX system, and thus a considerable improvement in the delay performance is obtained. The numerical results obtained using a Qualnet simulator confirm both the effectiveness and the efficiency of the proposed architecture.
AB - WiMAX and WiFi have emerged as promising broadband access solutions for the latest generation of wireless MANs and LANs, respectively. Their complementary features enable the use of WiMAX as a backhaul service to connect multiple dispersed WiFi hotspots to the Internet. This study proposes an integrated architecture utilizing a novel WiMAX/WiFi Access Point (W2-AP) device to effectively combine the WiMAX and WiFi technologies. In the proposed architecture, the protocol operation of the WiFi hotspots is the same as that of the WiMAX system. As a result, the WiFi network can support connection-oriented transmissions and QoS in a similar fashion to the WiMAX system, and thus a considerable improvement in the delay performance is obtained. The numerical results obtained using a Qualnet simulator confirm both the effectiveness and the efficiency of the proposed architecture.
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U2 - 10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784890
DO - 10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784890
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:63749110662
SN - 9781424423095
T3 - 2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2009
BT - 2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2009
T2 - 2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2009
Y2 - 10 January 2009 through 13 January 2009
ER -