IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Distributed admission control for power-controlled cellular wireless systems
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Wireless medium access control protocols
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Evolution of the power control techniques for DS-CDMA toward 3G wireless communication systems
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Power-controlled matiple access schemes for next-generation wireless packet networks
IEEE Wireless Communications
Wireless communications: past events and a future perspective
IEEE Communications Magazine - Part Anniversary
Ultra-wideband radio technology: potential and challenges ahead
IEEE Communications Magazine
Distributed resource allocation for DS-CDMA-based multimedia ad hoc wireless LANs
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Rate-regulated power control for supporting flexible transmission in future CDMA mobile networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Intelligent medium access for mobile ad hoc networks with busy tones and power control
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Guest editorial ultra-wideband radio in multiaccess wireless communications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Multiple access for UWB impulse radio with pseudochaotic time hopping
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Radio resource sharing for ad hoc networking with UWB
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Policy-driven self-management for an automotive middleware
HotAC II Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing
A versatile policy toolkit supporting run-time policy reconfiguration
Cluster Computing
Policy-based autonomic computing with integral support for self-stabilisation
International Journal of Autonomic Computing
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In the framework of wireless access networks the Hot-Spot concept is attracting several operators. In a Hot-Spot near stationary terminals may reach one or more Radio Access Points (RAP) offering wireless access to the fixed network. Mobile terminals should be able to register to the network, associate to a RAP and activate a wireless communication supporting given bit rates and Quality of Service (QoS) features. Several mobile users, requiring different services, enter and exit the Hot-Spot. In this scenario network operators should have the opportunity to configure quickly radio resources to serve the mobile terminals and to handle efficiently the network resources in order to maximize the income. Among the different technologies emerging in this field, we investigate the feasibility of a wireless access based on Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radio, combined with a flexible admission control scheme based on transmission power selection. We employ UWB in unlicensed mode, i.e., we operate in accordance to the limits imposed by the regulatory bodies (e.g., US Federal Communications Commission). The flexibility of the admission control depends mainly on the capability of a mobile terminal of "measuring" the environment it is entering and thus supporting the RAP in the selection of the appropriate transmission parameters. The proposed approach provides an admission policy based on the Maximum Extra Interference (MEI) and selects the power level through a simple interaction among the involved mobile terminals. The information for basing the decision on is collected through measurements and signaling. In order to increase the system efficiency, transmission parameters are selected in accordance to a "balancing" criterion (thus Balanced-MEI, B-MEI). The B-MEI approach keeps quite simple the admission of new mobile terminals in a RAP's area but contemporarily satisfies the trade-off between fair resource assignment and system efficiency. This is a key trade-off in wireless access systems where interference effects determine the upper limit of the number of users that can be admitted in the network.