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Cross-Layer Architectures for Autonomic Communications

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Layered architectures are not flexible enough to cope with the dynamics of wireless dominated next generation communications. Cross-layer architectures may provide a more flexible solution: breaks the traditional structure by allowing interactions between two or more non-adjacent layers. This paper review the cross–layer approach to network architecture and compare the different cross-layering architectures, observing that most current approaches depend purely on local information and provide only poor and inaccurate information gathering at the global scale. This paper also explores the possible use of cross-layering architectures in autonomic communications and the potential importance of new cross-layer architectures with a hybrid local and global view for autonomic communications.

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This work is partially supported by Science Foundation Ireland under grant number 04/RPI/1544, “Secure and Predictable Pervasive Computing.”

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  1. Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science and Informatics UCD, Dublin, Ireland

    Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, Simon Dobson & Paddy Nixon

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    Mohammad Abdur Razzaque

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Mohammad Abdur Razzaque is a PhD student in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at UCD Dublin. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. His research focuses on the autonomic communications.

Simon Dobson is with UCD Dublin’s School of Computer Science and Informatics, where his research centres on the semantics of adaptive systems and the programming languages and methodologies used to create them. He has held academic and research posts at Trinity College Dublin and the CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and for two years was CEO of a research based start-up company. He has published extensively in the fields of distributed and pervasive systems.

Paddy Nixon is Professor of Distributed Systems in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at UCD Dublin. His interests are in distributed and pervasive computing systems, supported by over 70 internationally reviewed papers. Prior to moving to UCD he was a professor at the University of Strathclyde and academic director of the Kelvin Institute, and academic/industrial partnership funded by the Scottish government.

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Razzaque, M.A., Dobson, S. & Nixon, P. Cross-Layer Architectures for Autonomic Communications. J Netw Syst Manage 15, 13–27 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-006-9051-8

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