Proposals for performance enhancement of intermediate node in ad hoc transport protocol

Different transport layer protocols are suitable for different applications. If the ad hoc network is fairly closed and consists of nodes from single organizations that are communicating with themselves, compatibility with TCP may not be required, and thus ATP (a reliable transport protocol for ad hoc network) is the good choice for this scenario. In ATP, the performance of sending TCP is concentrated but the performance and load of the intermediate node is not taken in to account. Traditional transport layer protocols are designed to operate in end to end basis but ATP is designed such that it operates on semi node to node basis. In this paper, three simple approaches is proposed to make ATP to perform end to end rather than node to node without sacrificing the performance The proposed system is implemented in java and its performance is compared with ATP protocol.