Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an operation of a layered communication system, the layered communication system transmitting information through a communication channel, has a provider 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, a provider for providing a first abstraction model and a second abstraction model, wherein each abstraction model models a characteristic of the first and second communication layers, respectively, a determiner for determining an optimized set of parameters to be used by each of the first and second communication layers based on the first and second abstraction models, the channel property and an optimization goal, a provider for providing the optimized sets of parameters to the first and second communication layers.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an operation of a plurality of communication layers in a layered communication system provides a property of the communication channel, and includes a storage element for storing a first plurality of sets of parameters defining operation modes of a first communication layer of the plurality of communication layers and for providing a second plurality of sets of parameters defining operation modes of a second communication layer of the plurality of communication layers, a selector for selecting a first set of parameters from the first plurality of sets of parameters and for selecting a second set of parameters from the second plurality of sets of parameters in dependence-on the channel property and an optimization goal and provides the first set of parameters to the first communication layer and the second set of parameters to the second communication layer.

Abstract: 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, has a provider 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, a provider 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, a determiner 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 a

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an operation of a plurality of communication layers in a layered communication system has means for providing a property of the communication channel, a storage element for storing a first plurality of sets of parameters defining different operation modes of a first communication layer of the plurality of communication layers and for providing a second plurality of sets of parameters defining different operation modes of a second communication layer of the plurality of communication layers, a selector for selecting a first set of parameters from the first plurality of sets of parameters and for selecting a second set of parameters from the second plurality of sets of parameters in dependence on the channel property and an optimization goal and means for providing the first set of parameters to the first communication layer and the second set of parameters to the second communication layer. Therefore, an efficient exploitation of communication resources can be achieved.