Highly stable and adaptive clustering with efficient routing in wireless ad hoc networks. (5th February 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dhurandher, Sanjay Kumar; Singh, G.V.
• Is Part Of: International journal of ad hoc and ubiquitous computing. Volume 3:Number 2(2008)
• Page Start: 68
• Page End: 81
• Publication Date: 2008-02-05
• Subjects: mobile ad hoc networks -- MANETs -- clustering -- routing -- reaffiliations -- mobile networks -- wireless networks -- simulation -- clusterhead reconfiguration -- control overheads -- throughput -- packet transfer delay; Ubiquitous computing -- Periodicals; Embedded computer systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer architecture -- Periodicals; 004.2
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8225

Abstract

The association and disassociation of mobile nodes to and from the clusters in wireless ad hoc networks disturb the stability of the network and, therefore, the reconfiguration of clusterheads is unavoidable. This paper proposes a Weight Based Adaptive Clustering Algorithm (WBACA) that leads to a high degree of stability in the network. Through simulations we have compared the performance of WBACA with that of the Lowest-ID algorithm and the Weighted Clustering Algorithm (WCA) in terms of the number of clusters formed, number of clusterhead changes, number of reaffiliations, control overheads, throughput, and average packet transfer delay in the network.