Cross-layering in mobile ad hoc network design
Marco Conti, Gaia Maselli, Giovanni Turi, Silvia Giordano · Computer · 2004
Mobile ad hoc network researchers face the challenge of achieving full functionality with good performance while linking the new technology to the rest of the Internet. A strict layered design is not flexible enough to cope with the dynamics of manet environments, however, and will prevent performance optimizations. The MobileMan cross-layer architecture offers an alternative to the pure layered approach that promotes stricter local interaction among protocols in a manet node.