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Generic Architecture and Mechanisms for Protocol Reconfiguration

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The next generation of wireless mobile communications termed beyond 3G (or 4G), will be based on a heterogeneous infrastructure that comprises different wireless networks in a complementary manner. Beyond 3G will introduce reconfiguration capabilities to flexibly and dynamically (i.e., during operation) adapt the wireless protocol stacks to better meet the ever-changing service requirements. For the dynamic reconfiguration of protocol stacks during runtime operation to become a practical capability of mobile communication systems, it is necessary to establish a software architecture that functionally supports reconfiguration. In the present paper, a generic architecture and respective mechanisms to achieve protocol stack and component based protocol layer reconfiguration are proposed.

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  1. Communication Networks Laboratory, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, 157 84, Athens, Greece

    Nancy Alonistioti, Eleni Patouni & Vangelis Gazis

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Alonistioti, N., Patouni, E. & Gazis, V. Generic Architecture and Mechanisms for Protocol Reconfiguration. Mobile Netw Appl 11, 917–934 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-006-0058-x

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