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Title: Understanding QoS issues for 802.11

Author: Sherlock, Ian Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Portable Design, v10 n3 p18(3) Publication Date: Mar 2004
  ISSN: 1086-1300
  Illustrations: Tables; Graphs
URL of Publication: http://www.portabledesign.com

The IEEE formed the 802.11e task group to focus on quality of service issues for 802.11 technologies. With 802.11 being the wireless technology standard for enterprise and SOHO data networks, the protocol has been adapted to meet these market demands. 802.11a and 802.11g handled increased bandwidth requirements, but quality of service will now be addressed as multimedia and data-centric devices crowd the airspace along with 802.11. Traffic increases degrade real-time link reliability. Quality of service is needed to help deploy wireless multimedia applications and wireless bridges between analog audio-video equipment and PCs. Quality of service will help improve the critical, real-time data on the wireless local area network and reduce contention overhead. All this will increase effective bandwidth. There are a number of ways that quality of service can be implemented, including over-provisioning bandwidth and queuing traffic in the host with the goal of separating low- priority from high-priority data.

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