Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Gowri Shankar

Mohan Reddy Duggi

Sudhindra Pundaleeka Herle

A system, method, and computer readable medium for mobile ad hoc network routing based upon a hardware address that comprises, identifying a destination node hardware address of a data packet that is outbound from a host node, searching a host node routing table for a destination node route from the host node to the destination node hardware address, routing the data packet to the destination node route in the event that the host node routing table returns a destination node hardware address, appending a flooding packet to the data packet in the event that the host node routing table returns a null destination node hardware address, and broadcasting the data packet to at least one neighbor node if the data packet has the flooding packet appended to it.

Mobile ad-hoc network routing based upon hardware address

For use in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), a first MANET node for routing data packets using Layer 2 information. The first MANET node comprises: 1) a radio frequency (RF) transceiver for wirelessly communicating with other MANET nodes; and 2) a controller for receiving incoming data packets from the RF transceiver and sending outgoing data packets to the RF transceiver. The controller receives a first data packet from an Internet protocol (IP) layer associated with the first MANET node, determines a first medium access control (MAC) layer address associated with the first data packet, and adds the first MAC layer address to the first data packet.

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