Wireless technology has expanded rapidly as a field over recent years, especially in mobile and distance technologies, and collaboration over networks demands increases in speed, security, and reliability.

Wireless Multi-Access Environments and Quality of Service Provisioning: Solutions and Application serves as a vital resource for practitioners to learn about the latest research and methodology within the field of wireless technology. This book covers important aspects of emerging technologies in the heterogeneous next generation network environment with focus on wireless communications and their quality. It presents network selection mechanisms, handover solutions and adaptive techniques, and identifies the research issues and challenges and presents a survey of the proposed solutions in the literature. It includes important chapters written by researchers from prestigious laboratories from Australia, China, Mexico, Portugal, Greece, Germany, the United Kingdom, and India, presenting the current advancements in wireless communications.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Cross-Layer Optimization
Handover Strategies
Interoperability
Management
Mobility Challenges
Multimedia content distribution
Network Layer Approaches
Network Selection Solutions
Security
Wireless Aware Transport Protocols

Reviews & Statements

Muntean and Trestian have selected an impressive array of experts from around the world to provide the insights contained in these chapters. I believe there is much to savor here for both students and researchers, who will get valuable details on current research and possible future approaches, as well as for those closer to the industry, who will get sight of the varied and inventive ways in which problems familiar to them are being addressed. I am sure that [this book] will serve as an important bridge between academic research and industrial application, and that it will be an authoritative reference work in the field of wireless quality of service for many years.

– Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland

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Editor/Author Biographies

Gabriel-Miro Muntean is an Associated Professor with the School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2003 for research on quality-oriented adaptive multimedia streaming over wired networks. He was awarded the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in Software Engineering from the Computer Science Department, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania in 1996 and 1997 respectively. Dr. Muntean is co-director of the DCU Performance Engineering Laboratory and Investigator with Insight and Lero National Research Centres. His research interests include quality-oriented and performance-related issues of adaptive multimedia delivery, performance of wired and wireless communications, energy-aware networking and personalised technology-enhanced learning. Dr. Muntean has published over 350 papers in prestigious international journals and conferences, has authored 4 books and 19 book chapters and has edited 6 other books, which have attracted over 6000 citations (H-index=44). Dr. Muntean has supervised successfully 22 PhD students and 10 postdoctoral researchers. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Multimedia Communications Area Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and reviewer for other important international journals, conferences, and funding agencies. He was the coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 project NEWTON. He is a senior member of IEEE, and IEEE Broadcast Technology Society.

Ramona Trestian is a Ph.D. researcher with the Performance Engineering Laboratory, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Ireland. She was awarded the B.Eng. degree in Telecommunications from the Electronics, Telecommunications, and the Technology of Information Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2007. Her research interests include wireless mobile networks, multimedia streaming over wireless access networks as well as handover and network selection strategies. She is student member of IEEE and member of the Network Innovations Centre, part of the RINCE Research Institute Ireland.

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Editorial Advisory Board

Pablo Angueira, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Gianluca Cornetta, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Spain
George Ghinea, Brunel University,UK
Cristina Hava Muntean, National College of Ireland, Ireland
John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
Changqiao Xu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China