TY - JOUR Y1 - 2014/// JF - Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology A1 - Ousta, F. A1 - Kamel, N. A1 - Yusoff, M.Z. A1 - Ali, S. UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84926283500&doi=10.19026%2frjaset.8.1164&partnerID=40&md5=eb352d2e10587ad8da32287f6bb75537 VL - 8 N2 - One of the main objectives of Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks (HWAN) is to integrate the different wireless access technologies, such as Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), with a common IP-based network in order to offer mobile users continuous and unified service in a transparent way. However, one of the major issues is to support end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) across all these technologies at all stages of the service from set-up to handoff. We present, in this study, a novel method of mapping QoS of UMTS and WiMAX over a loose coupling environment across Internet Protocol/Differentiated Service (IP/DiffServ) network. © Maxwell Scientific Organization, 2014. IS - 16 ID - scholars4576 PB - Maxwell Science Publications SN - 20407459 EP - 1780 AV - none N1 - cited By 0 SP - 1777 TI - Mapping QoS classes in loose coupling heterogeneous networks ER -