Multicluster, mobile, multimedia radio network
Wireless Networks
An energy consumption model for performance analysis of routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
WCA: A Weighted Clustering Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Cluster Computing
Distributed Clustering for Ad Hoc Networks
ISPAN '99 Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks
A Mobility Based Metric for Clustering in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
ICDCSW '01 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Ad hoc Networking
Limiting the impact of mobility on ad hoc clustering
PE-WASUN '05 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks
A Weight-Based Clustering Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Network
ICWMC '07 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications
A Survey on One-Hop Clustering Algorithms in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Minimum energy mobile wireless networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Efficient topology control scheme for wireless ad-hoc networks
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies
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The growth of interest and research on multihop wireless network is exponential in recent years. In mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), the nodes play the role of routers to forward the packets of neighbor nodes as there is no fixed infrastructure available to do so. Clustering is a proven solution that maps the architecture of cellular networks into ad hoc networks. Here, selected nodes form the virtual backbone of the network and take part in packet routing. This achieves faster packet delivery as limited nodes are responsible for the same even though the network is not strongly connected. In this paper, a distributed topology adaptive clustering algorithm is designed that requires local information by the nodes for the formation of clusters. The role of cluster head is fairly distributed among the nodes to obtain a longer network lifetime. The change of cluster heads and the mobility of nodes disturb the node connectivity resulting in communication instability. To overcome such situations, a topology control protocol is developed that adjusts the transmission range of concerned mobile nodes to achieve local connectivity among nodes within the clusters even after the hand-off by the heads takes place.