A reliable and high throughput Multi-Rate Ad Hoc routing protocol: Cross layer approach

In this paper, a high throughput routing protocol, using the MAC layer information, for Multi-Rate Ad-hoc Networks is proposed. By choosing the route with the minimum value of the proposed “Route Assessment Index”, the selected route is ensured to have high throughput with link´s reliability. Also, link bottleneck could be avoided in the chosen route. Hence, the packet drop rate is also decreased. The correctness of the proposal is proven and the simulation results show that our new metric provides an accurate and efficient method for evaluating and selecting the high throughput route in Multi-Rate Ad-hoc Networks.