Layered architectures are not sufficiently flexible to cope with the dynamics of wireless-dominated next-generation communications. Most existing architectures and approaches depend purely on local information and provide only poor and inaccurate information gathering at the global scale. Delayered or cross-layer architectures may provide a better solution: cross-layering allows interactions between two or more non-adjacent layers in the protocol stack. We propose a new cross-layer architecture which provides a hybrid local and global view, using gossiping to maintain consistency. We evaluate our proposal informally in terms of communication complexity and in terms of its ability to support the "self-*" properties being proposed within the autonomic communications community.

Item Type:	Refereed Conference Paper
Research Division:	Information and Computing Sciences
Research Group:	Distributed computing and systems software
Research Field:	Networking and communications
Objective Division:	Information and Communication Services
Objective Group:	Information systems, technologies and services
Objective Field:	Information systems, technologies and services not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:	Nixon, Paddy (Professor Paddy Nixon)
ID Code:	69459
Year Published:	2006
Deposited By:	Research Division
Deposited On:	2011-04-20
Last Modified:	2012-10-22
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