Future mobile communication systems are expected to support multimedia applications (audio phone, video on demand, video conference, file transfer, etc.). Multimedia applications make a great demand for bandwidth and impose stringent quality of service requirements on the mobile wireless networks. In order to provide mobile hosts with high quality of service in the next generation mobile multimedia wireless networks, efficient and better bandwidth reservation schemes must be developed. A novel traffic-based bandwidth reservation scheme is proposed in this paper as a solution to support quality of service guarantees in the mobile multimedia wireless networks. Based on the existing network conditions, the proposed scheme makes an adaptive decision for bandwidth reservation and call admission by employing fuzzy inference mechanism, timing based reservation strategy, and round-borrowing strategy in each base station. The amount of reserved bandwidth for each base station is dynamically adjusted, according to the on-line traffic information of each base station. We use the dynamically adaptive approach to reduce the connection-blocking probability and connection-dropping probability, while increasing the bandwidth utilization for quality of service sensitive mobile multimedia wireless networks. Simulation results show that our traffic-based bandwidth reservation scheme outperforms the previously known schemes in terms of connection-blocking probability, connection-dropping probability, and bandwidth utilization.