In this paper we revise some of the most relevant aspects concerning the quality of service in wireless networks, providing, along the research issues we are currently pursuing, both the state-of-the-art and our recent achievements. More specifically, first of all we focus on network survivability, that is the ability of the network of maintaining functionality as a consequence of a component failure. Then, we turn our attention on data access and network services in a distributed environment. Finally, we analyze a basic network optimization task, that is routing design in wireless ATM networks.