A cautionary perspective on cross-layer design

By Vikas Kawadia, P. Arun Raj Kumar. IEEE wireless communications, 2005

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges, Design Principles, and Technical Approaches (2009, background): “ever, it is still important to keep some form of logical separation of these functionalities to preserve modularity, and ease of design and testing [14].”
Compute-and-Forward: Harnessing Interference Through Structured Codes (2009, background): “However, this would negate many of the advantages of a modular design [11].”
Wireless mesh networks: a survey (2005, background): “However, certain issues must be considered when carrying out crosslayer protocol design [ 77 ]: cross-layer design have risks due to loss of protocol layer abstraction, incompatibility with existing protocols, unforeseen impact on the future design of the network, and”
Principles and protocols for power control in wireless ad hoc networks (2005, neutral): “Cross-layer design, in general, should be approached holistically with some caution, keeping in mind longer term architectural issues [7].”
Integrated Sensing and Communications: Recent Advances and Ten Open Challenges (2023, background): “However, since every optimization action has the potential to increase the cross-layer interaction, it is important to consider their long-term effects right across the entire framework [176].”
Cross-layer design: a survey and the road ahead (2005, background): “Architecture violations can have a detrimental impact on system longevity, as has been argued for the case of cross-layer design in [ 1 ].”
Cognitive networks (2005, background): “optimizing at the chosen layers that they may end up degrading the overall system or connection performance [10].”
Recent and Emerging Topics in Wireless Industrial Communications: A Selection (2008, background): “…often possible to reach more energy-efficient protocol designs with cross-layer approaches [88] instead of relying on traditional protocol layering principles, but cross-layer design is also more challenging because of the larger potential for unwanted interactions between protocol components [89].”
Cross-layer wireless multimedia transmission: challenges, principles, and new paradigms (2005, methodology): “The proposed cross-layer approach does not necessarily require a redesign of existing protocols [ 1 ], and can be performed by selecting and jointly optimizing the application layer and the strategies available at the lower layers, such as admission control, resource management, scheduling, error pr”