Bandwidth Estimation Problem & Solutions in IEEE 802.11 based Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract-With the rise in multimedia applications in ad hoc networks it is necessary to ensure the quality of service support from network. The routers which may be mobile nodes in ad hoc networks should be able to evaluate the resources available in the network, prior to offering guarantees on delay, bandwidth or any other metric. Estimating the available bandwidth is often required before performing admission control, flows management, congestion control or routing based on bandwidth constraints so that before any new flow is admitted the existing flow does not degrade. Lot of work in terms of various tools and techniques has been proposed to evaluate the available bandwidth in last decade; no consensus has yet been arrived. We present a comprehensive review on the various state of art work proposed carried out in this are