Priority based congestion control in WBAN

Abstract

Wireless technology has earned many accolades from the very beginning. The unveiling of WBAN amazed researchers around the globe with its marvelous prospects. Since its birth in the last few years, researchers are busy digging out this field and finding different solutions to various issues present in the layered architecture of WBAN, congestion being one of the serious problems in the transport layer. In this paper, a protocol is proposed based on queue occupancy with packet loss for controlling congestion so that its effect could be minimized or totally vaporized. On comparing it with the conventional TCP's congestion control algorithms, the simulation results show that the overall throughput of the proposed protocol is better.