One of the main challenges already faced by communication networks is the efficient
management of increasing complexity. The recently proposed concept of cognitive network …

Quality of service (QoS) provisioning in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) consists of
providing a complex functionality in a harsh environment where resources are scarce. Thus …

The vision for the Internet of Things (IoT) demands that material objects acquire
communications and computation capabilities and become able to automatically identify …

Cognitive networking deals with using cognition to the entire network protocol stack to
achieve stack-wide, as well as network-wide performance goals; unlike cognitive radios that …

Significant progress has been made in the past few years on Dynamic Spectrum Access
(DSA) wireless networks which seek to use RF spectrum more efficiently and dynamically …

Cellular network infrastructures are rapidly evolving and are becoming high-speed data
networks. Following a conventional TCP/IP model with such a highly growing industry leads …

The simultaneous optimization of multiple responses in a dynamic system is challenging.
When a response has a known gradient, it is often easily improved along the path of …

Recent challenges and novel approaches of wireless communication networks are
characterized by high performance requirements on the radio channel and by concepts of …

Wireless sensor networks have a wide range of applications and can be used for various
purposes in different environments. Wireless sensors are small and they are mostly using …

Based on the layered organization of the functional architecture of communication systems,
the necessity of using the statements of cross-layer design and optimization is provided …