A quality-aware VoWLAN architecture and its quantitative evaluations

The deployment of wireless LAN and other communication media, such as 3G cellular, is proceeding rapidly. In the near future, multiple WLAN carriers, together with 3G cellular and other communication carriers, will provide their services in a complementary fashion. Furthermore, next-generation mobile phones, which may use voice and data services simultaneously, will connect these networks. In the present article we design and evaluate a new network architecture that ensures appropriate QoS for next-generation mobile phones. Through performance evaluations, we show that our architecture improves QoS for voice communication.