Future wireless networks should facilitate efficient communication for rapidly growing
bandwidth intensive applications. The existing layered protocol stack lacks efficiency in …

Layered architectures are not sufficiently flexible to cope with the dynamics of wireless-
dominated next generation communications. Cross-layer approaches may provide a better …

During the last years, a continuous convergence and fusion of computing and networking
systems is stressed in the ICT research community. Context awareness appears to be a …

Context awareness is a key component of next generation pervasive computing systems
and networks. Cross layer context exchange can be proposed as an efficient solution for …

Recently, in an effort to improve the performance of wireless networks, there has been
increased interest in protocols that rely on interactions between different layers. However …

Cross-Layer design has been the focus of several recent research efforts. Due to the highly
variable nature of the links used in wireless communication systems and the resource-poor …

The inherent context-awareness properties of pervasive computing and the need for efficient
user profiling and location information management quickly made it obvious that context …

The proliferation of different wireless technologies has led to fragmentation of interfaces and
APIs that are used to control and manage air interfaces and wireless links. The emergence …

Context refers to information characterizing the situation of an entity or a group of entities,
and it provides information about the present status of the entities. The term context may be …

ABSTRACT Current 802.11 1 WLANs rely on the 802.11 MAC (medium access control) and
careful channel assignment to resolve intra-and inter-BSS (basic service set) interferences …