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Mitigation of Packet Loss Using Data Rate Adaptation Scheme in MANETs

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Node’s mobility, bursty data traffic, and dynamic nature of the network make congestion avoidance and control a challenging task in Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs). Congestion results in high packet loss rate, increased delays, and wastage of network resources due to re-transmissions. In this paper, we propose In-route data rate adaptation to avoid packet loss. Proposed scheme is based on the analysis of queue length of the forwarding nodes, number of data source nodes, and rate of link changes. In proposed technique, queue length of forwarding nodes is communicated periodically to the neighbor nodes using existing control messages of the underlying routing protocol. Keeping in view the queue length of forwarding nodes, number of data source nodes, and rate of link changes, initially the intermediate nodes buffer the incoming data packets upto some threshold and then, gradually shift the effect of congestion to the data source nodes. Then, the source node adapts its sending data rate to avoid congestion and to ensure reliable data communication. We have performed simulations in NS-2 simulator by varying different network metrics such as data rate, number of source nodes, and node speed. Results show that proposed technique improves network performance in terms of packet delivery ratio upto 15 %, reduction of average end-to-end delay and packet loss due to interface queue overflow upto 25 % and 14 % respectively, as compared to the static rate adaptation scheme.

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The work reported in this paper has been partially supported by Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan, and the University of Malaya under UMRG grant RG325-15AFR.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Saleem Khan, Saira Waris & Majid I. Khan

  2. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Malaya, Malaysia

    Ihsan Ali & Mohammad Hossein Anisi

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Khan, M.S., Waris, S., Ali, I. et al. Mitigation of Packet Loss Using Data Rate Adaptation Scheme in MANETs. Mobile Netw Appl 23, 1141–1150 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-016-0780-y

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