Experience level agreements in wireless metropolitan area sharing networks

Abstract

Nowadays, mobile wireless users are in constant demand of connectivity. Satisfying the connectivity requirements of the users requires a large amount of Access Points (APs) in order to enlarge the wireless service coverage. Wireless Metropolitan Area Sharing Networks (WMSN) are a low cost alternative that fulfill this high degree of user requirements. On WMSN certain places will experiment congestion when a large number of users are associated with the same device. For this reason, new mechanisms are required with the aim of satisfy the Quality of User Experience (QoE). The Experience Level Agreements (ELA) definition for WMSN is a formal way to characterize the requirements of the users and permits having measuring functions for this kind of network, which helps to improve the QoE.