This paper describes a technique that combines MAC layer and routing together. This breaks the conventional layering structure in network protocol, but offers better throughput as now it takes advantage of the slight chance that some packets might get "lucky" and travel further than it could reliably transfer.
The main problem with this scheme is how to prevent the overhead of communication between the recipients from overwhelming the benefit the scheme might offer. ExOR did the following:
1. batching of packets
2. use of batch map with packet transfer so that information is transferred at the same time as verifying the previous hop's transfer.
However, because this scheme is not compatible with existing TCP protocol, dedicated proxy is required to convert TCP connections into this kind of connection. This could be an obstacle that prevents its wide deployment. Many other technically superior solutions are not deployed because of compatibily issues.
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