Abstract — Cross-layer design is an emerging proposal to support flexible layer approaches in MANETs. The routing information about bandwidth, channel capacity, received power and distance to reach its destination could be exploited by the MAC layer in order to give priority to the packets that are closer and appropriate to their destination. By exploit bandwidth information at the MAC layer in order to find out the best route for multimedia data. With the help of performance metrics like packet delivery ratio, Average Throughput, average end-to-end delay and normalized routing load, it will be shown that cross-layering between MAC and routing layer performs much better than using routing layer and MAC layer separately.