WIRELESS NETWORK TRAFFIC AND QUALITY OF SERVICE SUPPORT: TRENDS AND STANDARDS

Wireless networking is considered by many to be the future of communication technology, as the demand for high quality, mobile connection increases across the world.

Wireless Network Traffic and Quality of Service Support: Trends and Standards examines cutting edge approaches for the provision of Quality of Service (QoS) in wireless local area networks, presenting the latest solutions towards the optimization of the channel management and routing in infrastructure and ad hoc wireless networks. This book also analyzes traffic categorization issues and methods that can predict the available QoS, as well as managing wireless mesh networks and wireless sensor networks. It also examines the entire user experience, by treating energy conservation techniques to maximize mobile devices' battery lifetime. It is a vital foundation for researchers dealing with the problems of today to create the new networks of the future.

Thomas Lagkas received the B.S. degree (with honors) in computer science from the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. He received the PhD degree on Wireless Communication Networks from the same department, in 2006. During his PhD studies, he was awarded a PhD candidates scholarship by the Research Committee of the Aristotle University. He has been an adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece, since 2007. He has been a Laboratory Associate at the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, since 2004, and a Scientific Associate, since 2008. He has been awarded a postdoctoral research scholarship by the State Scholarship Foundation. His interests are in the areas of wireless communication networks, medium access control, QoS provision and mobile multimedia communications with relevant publications at a number of widely recognized international scientific journals and conferences.

Pantelis Angelidis received his diploma in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1989 and 1993 respectively. He is currently with the University of Western Macedonia, Greece, Ass. Prof. on Health Telematics. He has worked as a technology expert in Telecommunications for the past 20 years. He has served as a project manager in over twenty international research projects. He has presented more than 50 papers in international scientific conferences and has published more than 20 original articles in international research journals. He serves as an evaluator of IST projects for the European Commission and the Greek Government. Dr Angelidis is the leader of the CEN eEHIC PT, a member of the EC M/403 eHealth-INTEROP PT and the ITU Steering Committee of the Centre of Excellence Programme for Eastern Europe and CIS countries and board secretary of HL7 Hellas. Dr. Angelidis is the founder and president of VIDAVO, a health telematics company. His research interests include WSN, BAN, protocols and services in ehealth.

Loukas Georgiadis is an assistant professor of Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia,Greece. His research interests include combinatorial algorithms (mainly for graph and network problems), data structures, and optimization. Loukas obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University under the supervision of Professor Robert E. Tarjan. Prior to joining the University of Western Macedonia he held research positions at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA.