APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN OPERATION OF A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION LAYERS IN A LAYERED COMMUNICATION SCENARIO

摘要

An Apparatus for controlling an operation of a plurality of communication layers of a layered communication system, the layered communication system transmitting information through a communication channel, comprises means for providing a property of the communication channel, an extractor for extracting a first set of parameters of a first communication layer and a second set of parameters of a second communication layer to determine current statuses of the first and second communication layer, means for providing a first abstraction model and a second abstraction model, wherein the first abstraction model models a characteristic of the first communication layer, and wherein the second abstraction model models a characteristic of the second communication layer, means for determining an optimized first set of parameters to be used by the first communication layer and an optimized second set of parameters to be used by the second communication layer based on the first abstraction model, the second abstraction model, the channel property and an optimization goal, means for providing the optimized first set of parameters to the first communication layer and the optimized second set of parameters to the second communication layer. Therefore, an efficient exploitation of communication resources can be achieved.