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Roaming and Service Management in Public Wireless Networks Using an Innovative Policy Management Architecture

Overview Nowadays, public Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), commonly called hotspots, are being largely deployed by WISPs (Wireless Internet Service Providers) as a means of offering ubiquitous Internet access to their customers. This paper describes RSM-WISP, a new management architecture designed for WISPs to facilitate the implementation and management of the services they offer at the access side of the WLAN, and to manage roaming contracts between WISPs. The CPE ensures service enforcement, service differentiation (access to different service levels) and guarantee, user access management, and dynamic WLAN adaptation according to the user's SLA (Service Level Agreement).

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Wireless LAN, SLA, Wireless Internet

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