1st International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks

Research Article

QoS aware wireless bandwidth aggregation (QAWBA) by integrating cellular and ad-hoc networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/QSHINE.2004.43,
        author={Danyu  Zhu and M.W. Mutka and Zhiwei Cen },
        title={QoS aware wireless bandwidth aggregation (QAWBA) by integrating cellular and ad-hoc networks},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={QSHINE},
        year={2004},
        month={12},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/QSHINE.2004.43}
    }
    
  • Danyu Zhu
    M.W. Mutka
    Zhiwei Cen
    Year: 2004
    QoS aware wireless bandwidth aggregation (QAWBA) by integrating cellular and ad-hoc networks
    QSHINE
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/QSHINE.2004.43
Danyu Zhu1, M.W. Mutka1, Zhiwei Cen 1
  • 1: Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

Abstract

Some mobile devices are beginning to support both cellular and IEEE 802.11 based network interfaces. Although rates are increasing, current cellular networks provide relatively low bandwidth that do not meet the QoS requirements of many high-demanding multimedia applications. In this paper, we propose an integrated network architecture that utilizes both wireless interfaces to provide better QoS support by QoS aware wireless bandwidth aggregation (QAWBA). Via QAWBA, mobile nodes form a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) using their IEEE 802.11 interfaces to share their cellular link capacity. Some mobile nodes act as proxies to contribute their idle cellular links to support a QoS request that may exceed the available bandwidth of any individual mobile node. A K-path proxy discovery algorithm is proposed for fast and efficient proxy discovery. Simulation results show that QAWBA can significantly improve network utilization and the admission rate of QoS requests.