1 Overview; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Wireless Resource Management Basics; 1.3 Multimedia Traffic Characteristics and Performance Metrics; 1.4 Challenges and Issues; 1.5 Monograph Outline; 2 MAC Protocols for High Data-Rate Wireless Networks; 2.1 Wireless Local Area Networks; 2.2 Wireless Personal Area Networks; 2.3 Wireless Body Area Networks; 2.4 Summary; 3 Contention-Based Medium Access Control; 3.1 Channel Access Mechanism; 3.1.1 Traditional Contention-Based Medium Access Control; 3.1.2 Prioritized Contention-Based Medium Access Control; 3.2 Performance Evaluation. 3.2.1 Simulation Settings3.2.2 Prioritized Access by Differentiated AIFS; 3.2.3 Prioritized Access by Differentiated CW Size; 3.3 Analytical Modeling for Contention-Based MAC; 3.3.1 Analytical Modeling Principles; 3.3.2 Classic Analytical Frameworks and Models; 3.4 Summary; 4 Resource Reservation; 4.1 Introduction; 4.1.1 Channel Reservation Principles; 4.1.2 Challenges and Issues; 4.2 Distributed Channel Reservation Mechanisms; 4.3 Modeling and Analysis; 4.4 Performance Evaluation; 4.5 Reservation Performance Improvement; 4.5.1 New Reservation Mechanisms; 4.5.2 Performance Evaluation. 4.6 Summary5 Hybrid Medium Access for Multimedia Services; 5.1 Hybrid Approach; 5.1.1 Hard-Reservation Dual-Buffer Hybrid Medium Access; 5.1.2 Soft-Reservation Hybrid Medium Access; 5.2 Mean Value Analysis; 5.2.1 Hard-Reservation Hybrid MAC with Saturated Stations; 5.2.2 Hard-Reservation Hybrid MAC with Unsaturated Stations; 5.2.3 Soft-Reservation Hybrid MAC with Unsaturated Stations; 5.3 Performance Evaluation; 5.4 Case Study: Supporting HDTV; 5.5 Summary; References.

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.