Project Summary:
In MANET(mobile ad hoc network), each node is free to move about, creating not only fluctuating wireless link bandwidth, but also link breakage, route breakage and dynamic routing. Currently TCP remains the de facto standard for congestion control in MANET (despite its many well known deficiencies in this environment), simply because of its wide acceptance and deployment over the Internet. With the emerging need of multimedia streaming, equation-based congestion control is likely to find its way into MANET as well. However, the behavior of equation-based congestion control as exemplified by TFRC (TCP Friendly Rate Control) is very much unknown in MANET, where the degrees of network dynamics are far more diverse than those in wire line networks. For