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University: : University of Pittsburgh Professor: Prashant Krishnamurthy Department: Department of Information Science & Telecommunications We are using OPNET for: Research with OPNET: Quality of Service (QoS) Support in Wireless LANs The objective of out study is to develop a comprehensive and integrated solution to provide effective and efficient QoS support in WLANs in a distributed, fair, scalable, and robust manner with low complexity. Publications Wasan Pattara-atikom, Sujata Banerjee and Prashant Krishnamurthy, A-DRAFT: An Adaptive QoS Mechanism to Support Absolute and Relative Throughput in 802.11 Wireless LANs,” (to appear) in Proceedings of the 7th ACM International workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Venice, Italy, Oct 2004. · Wasan Pattara-atikom, Prashant Krishnamurthy and Sujata Banerjee, Comparison of Distributed Fair QoS Mechanisms Wireless LANs, IEEE GLOBECOM Conference - Wireless Communications symposium, San Francisco, CA, December 2003. Wasan Pattara-atikom, Sujata Banerjee and Prashant Krishnamurthy, Predicting the Quality of Video Transmission over Best Effort Network Service, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N), Dallas, TX, October 2003. Wasan Pattara-atikom, Prashant Krishnamurthy and Sujata Banerjee, Distributed Mechanisms for Quality of Service in Wireless LANs, special issue on "QoS in Next-generation Wireless Multimedia Communications Systems" of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 10, No.3, pp. 26-34, June 2003. Wasan Pattara-atikom, Sujata Banerjee and Prashant Krishnamurthy, Starvation Prevention and Quality of Service in Wireless LANs, Proceedings of the IEEE 5th Intl. Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), Honolulu, October 2002. Wasan Pattara-atikom, Sujata Banerjee and Prashant Krishnamurthy, On Distributed, Adaptive and Fair QoS Enabling Mechanism in Wireless LANs, ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), vol. 7, no. 1, January 2003 (ACM MOBICOM 2002 poster session).