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Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks

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    Hans van den Berg

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  6. University of Beira Interior, Portugal

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    van den Berg, H., Bohnert, T.M., Cabral, O., Moltchanov, D., Staehle, D., Velez, F. (2009). Performance Evaluation and Traffic Modeling. In: Siris, V., Braun, T., Barcelo-Arroyo, F., Staehle, D., Giambene, G., Koucheryavy, Y. (eds) Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 31. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85573-8_3

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