A Novel Approach for Congestion Control in MANET

-In mobile ADHOC networks have limited bandwidth and are more prone to error than wired networks which further impose limits on the amount of data that can be sent. In order to conserve the limited resources, it is highly desirable that transmission should be as efficient as possible with minimal loss. The objective of congestion control is to limit the delay and buffer overflow caused by network congestion and provide better performance of the network. The traditional congestion control mechanism, applied by the transport control protocol is unable to catch up the network dynamics of adhoc networks. Congestion control assumes all losses induced by congestion. In this paper, a novel approach of congestion control for supporting applications like multimedia streaming over MANET is being proposed. Index term: Link failure, Velocity Change, Position Congestion Control, Non-congestion Loss.