The MANET requires rate based transport protocol for node-to-node data transfer to be effective. The wellknown transport protocol processes the packets in sender, receiver and intermediate nodes and thus the energy consumption by the intermediate nodes are imperative. In this paper, a mechanism is proposed, which makes ATP as en-to-end protocol. The transmission and queuing delay is calculated and weight is assigned suitably to understand the effect of the delay in the network. The effect of recent delay is considered and more weight is assigned to the delay value and the same is stamped in the header of the packet. The header is processed in the most of the layers of sender and receiver nodes only. The intermediate node process the header only in minimized layers and thus the energy of the nodes are saved. The percentage of power consumption time is considered as evaluation parameter and NS2 simulator is considered as tool. The performance of the proposed approach is encouraging compared a recently proposed similar approach. © 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.