Quality-of-service guarantee in high-speed multimedia wireless networks

Abstract

The next generation of wireless networks (i.e. high-speed wireless networks) will provide enough resources to support multimedia traffic. In such systems, it is necessary to provide quality-of-service (QOS) guarantees for the multimedia applications. We propose a connection setup algorithm which provides the QOS guarantees for the multimedia traffic. The proposed algorithm provides the QOS guarantees by reserving resources in the surrounding cells. It is shown through extensive simulations that the proposed algorithm provides smaller connection dropping probability than existing algorithms. It is also shown that better bandwidth efficiency is obtained by using the information regarding the user's movement pattern.