TITLE:
An Innovative Design Approach to Control over Ad Hoc Networks
AUTHORS:
S. Subburam, T. Senthilkumaran, S. Revathi, M. Mathivanan
KEYWORDS:
Congestion, MAC, Link Breaks, Cross Layer
JOURNAL NAME:
Circuits and Systems,
Vol.7 No.6,
May
20,
2016
ABSTRACT: In Mobile ad hoc networks
(MANETs), the mobile nodes are communicating trough wireless medium. The
protocol designs of MANETs are based on a traditional approach which has been
found ineffective to deal congestion related problems. Hence, it is affecting
properties of physical layer, the network layer and transport layer. This paper
proposes a novel design approach, deviating from the traditional network design,
towards enhancing the cross-layer interaction among different layers, namely
physical, MAC and network. The novel approach for congestion control is to
solve congestion and mobility related problems with a cross layer interaction. The significance of CLCC is that it has used two mechanisms: (i)
Dynamic Transmission Power Control algorithm that predicts a link breakage if
it is likely to happen, (ii) Dynamic Congestion Estimation Technique, which
analyzes traffic fluctuation and categorize congestion status perfectly. The proposed protocol reduces the
route breakage and network congestion, hence reduces the control overhead and
latency, and increases the packet delivery ratio. Through simulation, it is
shown that the proposed protocol is simple, robust and effective.