Performance Survey of MANET Routing Protocols with TCP Congestion Control Algorithms

The application of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) in wireless mobile communication is evolving as an instinctive preference due to its ability to support high mobility, high scalability and very low administration or maintenance cost, which are the essential characteristics of advanced wireless mobile communications. The Quality of Service (QoS) or efficiency of the MANETs lies in the performance of the routing protocols used. In this paper, we have presented a survey on the performance of different routing protocols under Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) congestion control algorithms. Our objective is to study the performance of the routing protocols in absence or presence of the TCP congestion control algorithms from existing literature.