An Effective Load Balanced and Congestion Control Protocol for Wireless Multimedia Networks Sumathi K.*, Dr. Venkatesan M.** *Assistant Professor, EBET Group of Institutions, Kangayam, Tamilnadu, India. thirusumathi83@gmail.com **Principal, K.S.R Institute for Engineering and Technology, Thiruchengodu, Tamilnadu, India. Venkatesh.muthusamy@gmail.com Online published on 23 March, 2017. Abstract In wireless sensor networks especially wireless multimedia sensor networks large volume of data is transmitted from source to sink which is greater than the available capacity of the network hence congestion occurs. Due to increases buffer overflow, packet latency, packet drop and decreases network throughput and quality of services. The retransmission of loss of packets leads to wastage of additional energy and decreases overall performance of the network. To concentrate on this challenge, a new congestion control protocol is proposed in which effective route is discovered by estimating trust, residual energy and link quality of the sensor nodes. Congestion are detected by using remaining buffer, traffic load and number of participants and over loaded node is protected by selecting the number of lighter traffic nodes by using load balanced concept and regulating the traffic loads. Finally the proposed protocol is simulated by using NS2 simulator and compares LBCC with other relevant protocols LBCAR and FBACC to show the merit of LBCC. Top Keywords WMSN, Route discovery, Congestion detection, Load balancing, traffic regulation, Congestion control. Top |