Mobile Communications Handbook, 3rd Edition

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Cross-Layer Design in Wireless Communications

 

     Sayantan Choudhury and Jerry D. Gibson

32.1 Introduction

32.2 Fundamentals of Cross-Layer Design/Architecture

32.3 Applications of Cross-Layer Design to Wireless Networks

Multimedia Transmission over WLANs

Cross-Layer Design in OFDMA Networks

Cross-Layer Design for Future Wireless Devices

32.4 Challenges with Cross-Layer Design

32.5 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

32.1 Introduction

 

Wireless communication has become ubiquitous in the last two decades and has challenged modern communication system designers to innovate rapidly to meet the challenges of transmitting signal efficiently in a wireless medium. There has been outstanding progress in technology in all layers of the communication ...