1. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Advances on Wireless LANs and PANs

   • Apostolis K. Salkintzis
   • Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou
   • Vijay K. Varma

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 5

2. A Relay-Based MAC Protocol for Multi-Rate and Multi-Range Infrastructure Wireless LANs

   • Jain-Shing Liu
   • Chun-Hung Richard Lin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 28

3. Delay Performance Analysis and Evaluation of IEEE 802.11e EDCA in Finite Load Conditions

   • Dimitris Vassis
   • George Kormentzas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 43

4. A Centralized MAC Protocol for QoS Support in UWB-Based Wireless Networks

   • Yuechun Chu
   • Aura Ganz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 66

5. Design and Evaluation of a QoS-aware Framework for HIPERLAN/2 Networks

   • Francisco M. Delicado
   • Pedro Cuenca
   • Antonio Garrido

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 90

6. Sequence Number Aided Source Routing for Ad-Hoc Networks

   • E. Papapetrou
   • F.-N. Pavlidou

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 107

7. Providing Throughput Guarantees in 802.11e WLAN Through a Dynamic Priority Assignment Mechanism

   • Antonio Iera
   • Giuseppe Ruggeri
   • Domenico Tripodi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 125

8. Radio Resource Management with Utility and Pricing for Wireless LAN Hot-Spots

   • Leonardo Badia
   • Michele Zorzi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 142

9. Adaptive Delay and Synchronization Control for Wi-Fi Based Mobile AV Conferencing

   • Haining Liu
   • Magda El Zarki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 162

10. Energy-Efficient Operation through Interference Avoidance for Interconnected Bluetooth WPANs

    • Petar Popovski
    • Hiroyuki Yomo
    • Ramjee Prasad

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 187

11. Energy Efficiency of Error Control for High Data Rate WPAN

    • Mauro De Sanctis
    • Simone Quaglieri
    • Marina Ruggieri

    OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 209

12. A Study of Shadowing on Indoor Visible-Light Wireless Communication Utilizing Plural White LED Lightings

    • Toshihiko Komine
    • Shinichiro Haruyama
    • Masao Nakagawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 225