Voice Over IP in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks : Signaling, Mobility, and Security

The specific focus of this book is on mechanisms that affect the VoIP user satisfaction while not explicitly involved in the media session (i.e. the coded speech). This relates to the extra delays introduced by the security and the signaling protocols used to set up an authorized VoIP session and to the disruption caused by the user mobility that may take place during the session. This book thus investigates and proposes techniques for realizing time-efficient control mechanisms for VoIP. One important aspect within this book is the use of correlated error processes or random error processes or both to model the FER in the channel in order to evaluate the delays incurred by control mechanisms in different error situations.

Hanane Fathi received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering and her Ph.D. in Wireless Communications Engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2002 and 2006 respectively. She also holds a M. S. in Information Technology from Ecole Centrale d'Electronique, Paris, France. She visited Imai laboratory at the University of Tokyo, Japan, from October 2004 to March 2005. From 2006 to 2008, she worked as a research scientist at the Research Center for Information Security (RCIS) at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. Currently, she is a assistant research Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research interests include network security, wireless communications security, anonymous communication, privacy and network coding.

Shyam Chakraborty is Reader in wireless technology at University of Ulster and located at the Magee Campus. He received his M. Tech. from IIT Delhi and Licenciate and Doctor of Technology degrees from Helsinki University of Technology. He was the recipient of Academy Research Fellowship of academy of Finland (2000-2004). He was also with Ericsson Corporate Research (2005-2007). His research interests are architecture of IP based wireless networks; modelling and analysis of protocols; reliable and secure communications; VoIP and IMS over wireless systems etc.