Design of routing protocol based on MAC layer for Ad Hoc networks

Mobile Ad Hoc networks are autonomously self-organized networks without infrastructure support. We study Ad Hoc network routing protocol based the standard protocol in the IEEE 802.11 MAC, and the MAC layer label Switch routing protocol (MLLS) is proposed in this paper. It is designed and implemented by cross-layer method afterward. The proposed protocol utilizes the MAC frame to carry a complete route segment, without the involvement of the network layer. As the result the intermediate forwarding of packets transmission is only involved in the MAC layer and PHY layer. The simulation results show the improvement of the performance. The implementation achieves the basic functions of the proposed routing protocol, and the routing protocol in this paper is implemented in the driver layer.