Wireless technologies are being widely used today across the globe to support the communication needs of very large number of end users for voice communications and data services. Data services include activities such as sending e-mails, instant messages and accessing the Web. Due to an increased demand the network becomes congested. The congestion control mechanism in Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is designed for wired networks. Due to the inherent characteristics of wireless networks, TCP when applied to wireless networks suffers from poor performance because of random loss, burst...