doi: 10.7763/IJCTE.2011.V3.414
Survey of Cluster Based Routing Protocols in Mobile Adhoc Networks
M. Anupama1
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Bachala Sathyanarayana2
- 1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maturi Venkata Subba Rao College of Engineering, Hyderabad.
- 2Department of Computer Science and Technology, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Ananthapur
Abstract
Clustering in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) has many advantages compared to the traditional networks. But the highly dynamic and unstable nature of MANETs makes it difficult for the cluster based routing protocols to divide a mobile network into clusters and determination of cluster heads for each cluster. In this paper, we analyze and compare some of existing works on clustering in MANETs. We categorize the works as Location based, Neighbor based, Power Based, Artificial Intelligence Based, Mobility based and Weight Based. We also present the advantages and disadvantages of these techniques and suggest a best clustering approach based on the observation.
Keywords
- Clustering
- mobile AD hoc network (MANET)
- routing protocols
- wireless networks
How to Cite
M. Anupama and Bachala Sathyanarayana, "Survey of Cluster Based Routing Protocols in Mobile Adhoc Networks," International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 806-815, 2011. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJCTE.2011.V3.414
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Copyright © 2011 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).