In today's world, a mobile ad hoc network plays a predominant role for numerous applications such as education, entertainment, emergency services, tactical services, and home applications. The performance of IEEE 802.11 based wireless ad hoc networks degrades due to high contention for the shared medium among multiple ad hoc nodes.However, the shared medium can be accessed by multiple nodes, which causes link collisions and packet drop at the link level. These kinds of packet drops have a direct impact on the overall performance of the transmission control protocol (TCP). In this article, a new robust prioritized packet scheduling with adaptive backoff window (PPSAB) mechanism has been proposed to enhance the quality of service of TCP in the wireless scenario. In order to determine the congestion in the network, the proposed PPSAB mechanism anticipates the cross-layer parameters instead of transport layer parameters. The proposed access scheme assures minimized collisions and energy by setting the node level access to prevailing network parameters. The performance of the proposed PPSAB has been evaluated using an NS-2 environment and the results manifest that the normalized overhead is reduced by 20% and network throughput is increased by 17% than the existing methods.
K E Y W O R D Senergy consumption, mobile ad hoc network, prioritized packet scheduling, quality of service
INTRODUCTIONThe rapid development of wireless communication demands uninterrupted network connectivity among the communicating. Typically, mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is the collection of self-organizing and self-configuring mobile nodes which is not dependent on any stable and central coordinating infrastructure. The mobility of the nodes makes the topology of the network changes dynamically and the nodes may join and leave the network at any instance. 1 IEEE 802.11 ascertains single-hop reliability at medium access control (MAC) layer in MANETs.Two types of medium access techniques are generally utilized in IEEE 802.11. The first method, the distributed coordinated function enables the data flow among communicating devices while requiring no control infrastructure. Second, point coordinated function in which a central coordinator controls access to the shared wireless channel. 2,3 The basic channel access method exploited in distributed coordinated function is carrier sense multiple access collision and avoidance by the nodes. Every time, the shared channel is sensed by the node before data transmission and the node can transmit data if the medium is free or defer transmission until the medium becomes free.