2009 IEEE International Conference on
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics |
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Abstract
End to end cross-domain network communications (personal area network to a local area network, etc.) can be achieved in different ways. Although this may not means is done with an optimum performance. We believe that the interconnection performance depends on factors such as framing, encapsulation, the MAC layer protocols, transmission channel and queuing models. This survey presents the main research works on these factors considering two scenarios: i) isolated domain communication and ii) interconnected domain communication (heterogeneous networks). Cross layer design is then presented as a key player to obtain optimum end to end performance.