Using Cross-Layer Techniques for Communication Systems

Although the existing layering infrastructure–used globally for designing computers, data networks, and intelligent distributed systems and which connects various local and global communication services–is conceptually correct and pedagogically elegant, it is now well over 30 years old has started create a serious bottleneck.Using Cross-Layer Techniques for Communication Systems: Techniques and Applications explores how cross-layer methods provide ways to escape from the current communications model and overcome the challenges imposed by restrictive boundaries between layers. Written exclusively by well-established researchers, experts, and professional engineers, the book will present basic concepts, address different approaches for solving the cross-layer problem, investigate recent developments in cross-layer problems and solutions, and present the latest applications of the cross-layer in a variety of systems and networks.