Voice over IP performance monitoring
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Modelling and performance analysis of the distributed scheduler in IEEE 802.16 mesh mode
Proceedings of the 6th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Improving Quality of VoIP Streams over WiMax
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Performance of packet voice transmission using IEEE 802.16 protocol
IEEE Wireless Communications
Mini-slot scheduling for IEEE 802.16d chain and grid mesh networks
Computer Communications
Review: A comprehensive survey on scheduler for VoIP over WLAN
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are seen as a means to provide last mile connections in Next Generation Networks (NGNs). Because of their auto-configuration capabilities and the low deployment cost WMNs are considered to be an efficient solution for the support of multiple voice, video and data services in NGNs. This paper looks at the optimal provision of resources in WMNs for Voice over IP (VoIP) traffic, which has strict performance requirements in terms of delay, jitter and packet loss. In WMNs, because of the challenges introduced by wireless multi-hop transmissions and limited resources, providing performance quality for VoIP comparable to the voice quality in the traditional circuit-switched networks is a major challenge. This paper analyses different scheduling mechanisms for TDMA-based access control in mesh networks as specified in the IEEE 802.16-2004 WiMAX standard. The performance of the VoIP applications when different scheduling mechanisms are deployed is analysed on a variety of topologies using ns-2 simulation and mathematical analysis. The paper concludes that on-demand scheduling of VoIP traffic - typically deployed in 802.11-based WMNs - is not able to provide the required VoIP quality in realistic mesh WiMAX network scenarios and is therefore not optimal from a network operator's point of view. Instead, it is shown, that continuous scheduling is much better suited to serve VoIP traffic. The paper then proposes a new VoIP-aware resource coordination scheme and shows, through simulation, that the new scheme is scalable and provides good quality for VoIP service in a wide range of network scenarios. The results shown in the paper prove that the new scheme is resilient to increasing hop count, increasing number of simultaneous VoIP sessions and the background traffic load in the network. Compared to other resource coordination schemes the VoIP-aware scheduler significantly increases the number of supported calls.