International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 36 - Number 12 |
Year of Publication: 2011 |
Authors: V. Thilagavathe, Dr. K. Duraiswamy |
10.5120/4549-6288 |
V. Thilagavathe, Dr. K. Duraiswamy . Cross Layer based Congestion Control Technique for Reliable and Energy Aware Routing in MANET. International Journal of Computer Applications. 36, 12 ( December 2011), 1-6. DOI=10.5120/4549-6288
Since the congestion problem is prevalent in transport, data link and network layer in Mobile Ad hoc networks, a cross layer based congestion control technique is necessary to overcome the congestion problem. In this paper, we propose a cross-layer based technique to overcome congestion that occurs in MAC and transport layer in MANET. The proposed technique is applied over a Ad hoc On demand Multipath Reliable and Energy Aware QoS Routing Protocol (AOMP-REQR). The technique of additive increase and multiplicative decrease (AIMD) is applied for rate based congestion control of transport layer protocol. If source receives congestion status information from both MAC and transport layer simultaneously for the same route, then congestion free route will be established for transmission, without performing rate control. By simulation results, we show that the proposed technique attains more packet delivery ratio with less packet drop and reduced delay.