This brief offers a valuable resource on principles of
quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning and the related link-layer
resource management techniques for high data-rate wireless networks. The
primary emphasis is on protocol modeling and analysis. It introduces
media access control (MAC) protocols, standards of wireless local area
networks (WLANs), wireless personal area networks (WPANs), and wireless
body area networks (WBANs), discussing their key technologies,
applications, and deployment scenarios. The main analytical approaches
and models for performance analysis of the fundamental resource
scheduling mechanisms, including the contention-based,
reservation-based, and hybrid MAC, are presented.
To help readers understand and evaluate system performance, the brief
contains a range of simulation results. In addition, a thorough
bibliography provides an additional tool. This brief is an essential
resource for engineers, researchers, students, and users of wireless
networks.