A survey of dynamically adaptable protocol stacks

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-23

  Gazis, Vangelis ^a   Patouni, Eleni ^a   Alonistioti, Nancy ^a   Merakos, Lazaros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autonomic communications; Dynamic adaptation; Next generation networks; Protocol stacks; Reconfiguration

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC COMMUNICATIONS; DEGREE OF COUPLING; DESIGN APPROACHES; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DESIGN TRADEOFF; DYNAMIC ADAPTATIONS; IN-NETWORK MANAGEMENT; MOBILE SETTINGS; MODE OF OPERATIONS; NETWORK DESIGNER; NEXT GENERATION NETWORK; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; PROTOCOL CONFIGURATIONS; PROTOCOL STACK; RESEARCH EFFORTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION MODEL; RUNTIMES;

DESIGN; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; STANDARDIZATION; SURVEYS; TAXONOMIES;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 77249118203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2010.020110.00034     Document Type: Article

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