TY  - JOUR
TI  - Congestion in Wireless Networks - A Study
AU  - P. Neelakantan
JO  - International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology
PB  - Technoscience Academy
DA  - 2017/10/31
PY  - 2017
DO  - https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRCSEIT
UR  - https://ijsrcseit.com/CSEIT1725187
VL  - 2
IS  - 5
SP  - 802	
EP  - 809
AB  - One of the major problems in wireless networks is congestion and it occurs in all kinds of communication networks. The congestion in the wireless sensor network causes loss of packets and shortens the lifetime of the sensor nodes in the network. The packets will be retransmitted that were lost during congestion in the network consumes more energy of the sensor nodes and it results in reducing the throughput of the network. Controlling congestion in wireless sensor networks is necessary to sustain network lifetime and to achieve high-energy efficiency, packet loss ratio and channel utilization. The deployments of sensor nodes depend on the environment and on the application. In this paper, priority aware control method is proposed to extend the battery life of the sensor nodes as well as to improve the channel utilization and packet loss ratio.