—Due to the unreliable nature of the wireless medium, provisioning of the Quality of Service (QoS) in wireless LANs is by far more complicated than in wired networks. In this dem...
— Ethernet over SONET (EoS) is a popular approach for interconnecting geographically distant Ethernet segments using a SONET transport infrastructure. It typically uses virtual c...
Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are infrastructure-less networks where no central network management exists, composed of mobile nodes over wireless links. Network topology in MANE...
Protocols designed to provide error-free communications over lossy links, at both data link and transport layers, commonly employ the idea of sliding windows, which is based on th...
Cross-layer mechanism, for which a protocol locating at a given layer uses information issued from other layers, may enhance the mobile networks performance. Some of those mechanis...