The Application specific wireless sensor network differs basically from the general data network. It focuses on tight communication but restricted in storage, lifetime, power and energy. The WSNs consists of unbelievable network load and it leads to energy wastage and packet loss. Many of the existing concepts are developed for link level congestion control. The Rate optimization technique for node level congestion will assist to control the traffic at node level. Except source and sink node the remaining nodes may participate in forwarding the packets towards the communication direction. The rate based adjustment technique is applied to avoid packet dropping in order to save the network resources. We are proposing this scheme to avoid the buffer overflow and it is not taking too much energy consumption in the communication. This scheme will assist to improve the throughput, efficiency and resource saving. Node level congestion control is effectively needed for WSN, because the node deployment can be anywhere. We are Introducing this scheme using the network simulators extended tool called mannasim. © 2011 IEEE.