Integrated FRTCP: Fair and Reliable Transmission Control Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract

In an ad - hoc network, major challenging work is to maintain fairness among multiple flows in heterogeneous applications. The proposed solutions in the available literature are mostly based on the first come first out (FIFO) queuing which dispatch packets according to the priority of the packet, based on its type of application or region of the source node. As a result, packets having lower priority cannot reach to the destination even if they are originated from the source node since a long time, and dropped over there because of starvation in a given queue. So an efficient scheduling algorithm must be framed for achieving per flow fairness in heterogeneous applications of ad hoc network. In this paper, we propose an integrated priority measurement technique for fairness among multiple flows. In addition to this, the protocol addresses multiple flow transport events from different sources to sink nodes with overall minimum latency. Performance evaluation of this protocol moderates the end to end latency to the flows having lower priority.