Special issue on “quality of service and security in wireless and mobile networks”
Luciano Bononi, Hsiao‐Hwa Chen · Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing · 2010
Special issue on ''quality of service and security in wireless and mobile networks''Recently, wireless and mobile communication systems have become increasingly popular as an inexpensive and promising means for ubiquitous communications and mobile computing.This trend will continue to affect the way in which we live, work, and play with innovative services based on the pervasive and mobile communications support.A preliminary condition for those services to become widely used is the effective support of quality of service (QoS) and security properties.For this reason, QoS and security management of wireless and mobile communication systems are very important issues for the future generation of wireless and mobile networks and services, and the design and management of solutions for QoS and security are some of the most challenging research tasks, in scenarios like the wireless and mobile systems, characterized by new assumptions and limitations.The main limitations typically involve the resources like battery energy, computation, and bandwidth.The new assumptions include the unprecedented dynamics caused by mobility, heterogeneity, variable channel conditions, the traffic characterization of new emerging applications, the open communication nature, and the distributed management architecture of wireless communication systems, like the wireless ad hoc, mesh, vehicular, and sensor networks.This special issue brings together nine contributions, selected from a total of 25 submissions, that address the issues of architectures, technologies, and protocols for wireless and mobile communication systems.The selected papers propose and analyze some of the most interesting and innovative solutions dealing with the QoS and Security management in wireless mobile networks, from different viewpoints, including the QoS-based channel time allocation and scheduling in IEEE 802.15.3 wireless PANs, QoS analysis of IEEE 802.15.4Low rate WPAN technology in industrial application scenarios, QoS routing with obstacle avoidance properties in wireless sensor