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Cross-Layer Design for the Physical, MAC, and Link Layer in Wireless Systems

  1. The issue of adaptive and distributed cross-layer resource allocation for energy efficiency in uplink code-division multiple-access (CDMA) wireless data networks is addressed. The resource allocation problems ...

    Authors: Stefano Buzzi, H. Vincent Poor and Daniela Saturnino
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008 2009:532607
  2. Despite significant research effort, the performance of distributed medium access control methods has failed to meet theoretical expectations. This paper proposes a protocol named "Channel MAC" performing a fu...

    Authors: Manzur Ashraf, Aruna Jayasuriya and Sylvie Perreau
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008 2009:368209
  3. A resource allocation algorithm for orthogonal frequency division multiple access-based and infrastructure-based relay networks is introduced in this paper. The algorithm is applied in the downlink of a single...

    Authors: Christian Müller, Anja Klein and Bernhard Raaf
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008 2009:630964
  4. Random packet CDMA (RP-CDMA) is a recently proposed random transmission scheme which has been designed from the beginning as a cross-layer method to overcome the restrictive nature of the Aloha protocol. Herei...

    Authors: Roland Kempter, Peiman Amini and Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008 2009:238103
  5. Conventional medium access control protocols are designed to avoid simultaneous transmissions, based on a simple collision model in the underlying physical layer. Recently, strong physical layer capabilities, ...

    Authors: Katsutoshi Kusume, Robert Vilzmann, Andreas Müller, Christian Hartmann and Gerhard Bauch
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008 2009:156247
  6. We address the problem of resource allocation on the downlink of an OFDMA single-cell system under fairness constraints with limited channel state information (CSI). Target QoS corresponds to a minimum user da...

    Authors: Ayman Alsawah and Inbar Fijalkow
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008 2009:602856
  7. A further development of the synchronous array method (SAM) as a medium access control scheme for large-scale ad hoc wireless networks is presented. Under SAM, all transmissions of data packets between adjacen...

    Authors: Yuan Yu, Yi Huang, Bin Zhao and Yingbo Hua
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008 2009:873202
  8. The problem of determining an optimal parameter setup at the physical layer in a multiuser, multiantenna downlink is considered. An aggregate utility, which is assumed to depend on the users' rates, is used as...

    Authors: Johannes Brehmer and Wolfgang Utschick
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008 2009:645041