A novel clustering algorithm based on GPS of the mobile ad hoc network
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
Mitigating the impact of node mobility using mobile backbone for heterogeneous MANETs
Computer Communications
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Clustering can help aggregate the topology information and reduce the size of routing tables in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). The maintenance of the cluster structure should be as stable as possible to reduce overhead and make the network topology less dynamic. Hence, stability measures the goodness of clustering. However, for a complex system like MANET, one clustering metric is far from reflecting the network dynamics. Some prior works have considered multiple metrics by combining them into one weighted sum, which suffers from intrinsic drawbacks as a scalar objective function to provide solution for multi-objective optimization. In this paper, we propose a stability-aware multi-metric clustering algorithm, which can (1) achieve stable cluster structure by exploiting group mobility and (2) optimize multiple metrics with the help of a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA). Performance evaluation shows that our algorithm can generate a stable clustered topology and also achieve optimal solutions in small-scale networks. For large-scale networks, it outperforms the well-known weighted clustering algorithm (WCA) that uses a weighted sum of multiple metrics. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.