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The evolution from wired network systems to wireless environments such as Ad-hoc networks enables the emerging of cross–layer systems to improve the wireless network performance. Efficient methods, that may either produce or update cross–layer conceptual models have to be considered. Those models allow an efficient organisation of the wireless systems. In our approach, a cross–layer conceptual model is composed of: cross– layer interaction models and interactions description arrays, produced by the Reverse Cross-Layer (RCL) method that we proposed. The method has been applied to a chosen protocol stack