Although the existing layering infrastructure--used globally for designing computers, data networks, and intelligent distributed systems and which connects various local and global communication services--is conceptually correct and pedagogically elegant, it is now well over 30 years old has started create a serious bottleneck. Using Cross-Layer Techniques for Communication Systems: Techniques and Applications explores how cross-layer methods provide ways to escape from the current communications model and overcome the challenges imposed by restrictive boundaries between layers. Written exclusively by well-established researchers, experts, and professional engineers, the book will present basic concepts, address different approaches for solving the cross-layer problem, investigate recent developments in cross-layer problems and solutions, and present the latest applications of the cross-layer in a variety of systems and networks.

"Dynamic Ad-Hoc Networks" is a compilation of key research papers and contributions from experts and researchers in the field considers that under the Ad-Hoc based distributed systems, we can envision a whole new emerging distributed style of features that have never been experienced before. Motivated by a new exciting application paradigm using both internet and wireless technologies, Ad-Hoc networking and its association with emerging technologies is discussed across a range of systems ranging from surveillance systems up to road traffic control systems. Improved features of Ad-Hoc networking are discussed in this book to lead the way for new approaches for higher reliability, security, energy efficiency and application-specific optimized performance. The book is organized into four interrelated parts: Concepts and Principles; Networking Techniques; Ad-Hoc Network Management; and Applications of Ad-Hoc Networking. Examples are supported by a variety of algorithms. "Dynamic Ad-Hoc Networks" features three areas of new advanced solutions; advancements in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET), Vehicular Adhoc Networking (VANET) and distributed sensor systems (DSS), specific networking topologies such as Mesh, WLAN, WiMAX and Vehicular-to-Vehicle Communication and ad-hoc specific networking solutions such as network control, routing, scheduling and application samples such as wireless sensor networks (WSN) and Telematic Computing."