Cross-layer signalling and middleware: A survey for inelastic soft real-time applications in MANETs

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• 作者：Sarogini Grace Pease^a ;   ; ^{S.G.Pease@lboro.ac.uk} ; Lin Guan^a ;   ; ^{L.Guan@lboro.ac.uk} ; Iain Phillips^a ;   ; ^{I.W.Phillips@lboro.ac.uk} ; Alan Grigg^b ;   ; ^{A.Grigg@lboro.ac.uk}
• 关键词：Cross-layer Design ; Real-time traffic ; MANETs
• 刊名：Journal of Network and Computer Applications
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：November 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：34
• 期：6
• 页码：1928-1941
• 全文大小：559 K

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This paper provides a review of the different cross-layer design and protocol tuning approaches that may be used to meet a growing need to support inelastic soft real-time streams in MANETs. These streams are characterised by critical timing and throughput requirements and low packet loss tolerance levels. Many cross-layer approaches exist either for provision of QoS to soft real-time streams in static wireless networks or to improve the performance of real and non-real-time transmissions in MANETs. The common ground and lessons learned from these approaches, with a view to the potential provision of much needed support to real-time applications in MANETs, is therefore discussed.