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A Protocol for Macro Mobility and Multihoming Notification in Wireless Mesh Networks
AINAW '07 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops - Volume 02
Mobile Party: A Mobility Management Solution for Wireless Mesh Network
WIMOB '07 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications
Scalable real-time gateway assignment in mobile mesh networks
CoNEXT '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference
IEEE 802.11n: enhancements for higher throughput in wireless LANs
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A non-competing hybrid optical burst switch architecture for QoS differentiation
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Network performance engineering
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Future metropolitan and access networks are expected to comprise heterogeneous optical and broadband wireless technologies. The growing demand of users for transparent, ubiquitous access to diverse communication services poses several challenges. We envision a future metro-access architecture that comprises Optical Burst Switching networks that feed Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (PON) or upcoming Wavelength-Division Multiplexing PON, which in turn feed IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.11 nodes. Nodes in the wireless realm may communicate in a multihop fashion, forming mesh networks. To maintain cost and resource efficiency, we propose the introduction of Quality of Service (QoS) proxies at the border between different link technologies. These entities handle QoS requirements and aid to the support of mobility. The architecture requires no modification of the Medium Access Control mechanisms of the different technologies.