Multimedia Applications Support for Wireless ATM Networks

• Real-world applications and traffic patterns
• New routing and congestion control solutions
• Tracking and location management for mobile networks
• Multicasting, synchronization, QoS, and more

High-speed wireless multimedia networks: State-of-the-art design and architecture

In Multimedia Applications Support for Wireless ATM Networks, Dr. Anna HacŽ presents the state-of-the-art in design and architecture for tomorrow's high-speed, wireless multimedia, voice, data, and video networks. Beginning with a lucid, example-rich introduction to today's leading broadband and wireless ATM network technologies, HacŽ addresses every key issue facing the designer of advanced multimedia networks. Coverage includes:

• Architectures based on distributed control, hierarchical organization, ATM LANs, LANE, and the Intelligent Network
• New solutions for routing and congestion control in bursty, high-speed multimedia and mobile networks
• Tracking strategies, location management schemes, and location update/routing schemes for mobile environments
• Finding minimum cost multicast trees with bounded path delay
• Mobile host protocols for the Internet
• Key approaches to resource allocation: dynamic channel assignment, distributed dynamic channel assignment, and hybrid channel allocation
• Multicasting, synchronization, Quality of Service (QoS), and more

From start to finish, Hac focuses on real-world applications and traffic patterns-helping network designers and engineers evaluate alternatives, project performance, and make better decisions.