IDENTIFICATION OF IMPORTANT SAMPLING PARAMETERS IN EXTRAPOLATING THE PERFORMANCE OF TCP IN MANETS

MANET (Mobile Ad hoc Network) refers to an array of wireless mobile nodes that actively and temporarily forms a network with no particular support from the principal or main administration. TCP offers reliable and secure transfer of data in MANETs and the performance of TCP is much better in wired networks whereby loss of packets is as a result of congestion. Based on existing literature survey, this research reviews parameters identified earlier by previous researchers to evaluate and establish the performance of any algorithm designed to improve performance of TCP in Mobile Ad hoc Networks. Based on this secondary research, authors have concluded that the four parameters of Throughput; Delay / Latency; Packet Delivery Ratio; and Signal to Noise Ratio suffice in most cases to sufficiently evaluate and extrapolate the different methods used for measuring the performance of TCP in MANETs.