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established by creating a session involving a path that remains fixed throughout the user<br />

pair conversation duration. The session path choice m<strong>et</strong>hod (i.e., the routing algorithm)<br />

has not been consi<strong>de</strong>red. In [7], the authors have addressed the problems of charging, rate<br />

control and routing for a communication n<strong>et</strong>work carrying elastic traffic. Therefore, we<br />

envisage to take into account the routing strategy to extend our work. The routing issue<br />

in dynamic bandwidth allocation should be studied carefully to achieve a higher n<strong>et</strong>work<br />

revenue while satisfying, at the same time, the individual users’ requirements.<br />

On the other hand, realizing flexible and efficient bandwidth allocation in wireless<br />

n<strong>et</strong>works presents several technical challenges, including physical layer impairments, mo-<br />

bility and bandwidth mismatch b<strong>et</strong>ween wireline and wireless n<strong>et</strong>works. Physical layer<br />

impairments (e.g., co-channel interference, hid<strong>de</strong>n terminals, path-loss, fast fading and<br />

shadowing) contribute toward time-varying error characteristics and time-varying channel<br />

capacity making the <strong>de</strong>livery of hard QOS guarantees unlikely. In addition, user mobility<br />

can trigger rapid <strong>de</strong>gradation in the <strong>de</strong>livered service quality (e.g., during handoff). Hence,<br />

one important perspective of this thesis can be <strong>de</strong>voted to study the challenging points in<br />

wireless n<strong>et</strong>works and extend our work to this area.<br />

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