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Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

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9Predictive Congestion Control for <strong>Wireless</strong><strong>Sensor</strong> <strong>Networks</strong>Previous chapters have covered congestion <strong>and</strong> admission controlschemes for wired networks <strong>and</strong> power control, scheduling, <strong>and</strong> routingschemes for wireless ad hoc <strong>and</strong> sensor networks. As indicated in Chapter1, quality of service (QoS) guarantee includes throughput, end-to-enddelay, <strong>and</strong> packet drop rate even during congestion <strong>and</strong> in the presenceof unpredictable wireless channel. This chapter will introduce a congestioncontrol scheme for wireless networks that takes into account energyefficiency <strong>and</strong> fairness. This scheme will be implemented through feedbackobtained from one hop.Available congestion control schemes, for example, the transport controlprotocol (TCP), when applied to wireless networks, result in a large numberof packet drops, unfair scenarios, <strong>and</strong> low throughputs with a significantamount of wasted energy due to retransmissions. To fully utilize thehop-by-hop feedback information, a decentralized, predictive congestioncontrol method consisting of an adaptive flow <strong>and</strong> adaptive backoff intervalselection scheme is introduced for wireless sensor networks (WSN)(Zawodniok <strong>and</strong> Jagannathan 2006) in concert with the distributed powercontrol (DPC) (Zawodniok <strong>and</strong> Jagannathan 2004). Besides providing anenergy-efficient solution, the embedded channel estimator algorithm inDPC predicts the channel quality in the subsequent time interval. By usingthis information together with queue utilization, the onset of networkcongestion is assessed <strong>and</strong> a suitable transmission rate is determined byan adaptive flow control scheme. Then, an adaptive backoff interval selectionscheme enables a node to transmit packets at the rate determined bythe flow control scheme through one-hop feedback, thus preventing congestion.<strong>Ad</strong>ditionally, because of the recursive application of the proposedcongestion control at each node <strong>and</strong> through piggyback acknowledgments,the onset of congestion is propagated backward toward the sourcenodes, so that they too reduce their transmission rates. An optional adaptivescheduling scheme from Chapter 7 at each node updates the packetweights to guarantee the weighted fairness during congestion. DPC wasdiscussed in Chapter 6.429

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