Y. L. Morgan                           OCICS Carleton University
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Motivation
qThe increasing availability of WLAN.
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qThe enormous growth of cellular networks.
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qThe development of Community Access Networks.
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qThe growing popularity of P2P wireless applications.
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qThe increasing interest in ad-hoc and MESH networks.
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q All of the above market growth fuel the need to develop a QoS access gateways that can provide better than BE services to roaming nodes with minimum configuration.