A novel k-hop Compound Metric Based Clustering scheme for ad hoc wireless networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on wireless communications Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 367 - 375
• Main Authors: SUPENG LENG, YAN ZHANG, CHEN, Hsiao-Hwa, LIREN ZHANG, KE LIU
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.01.2009; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Ad hoc networks; Ad hoc wireless network; Applied sciences; Clustering; Clustering algorithms; Clusters; Construction; Exact sciences and technology; Information, signal and communications theory; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Links; Load balancing (computing); mobility; Network topology; Networks; Routing; Scalability; Signal and communications theory; Signal representation. Spectral analysis; Signal, noise; Simulation; Switches; Telecommunications and information theory; Wireless communication; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; Automatic classification; mobility; Scalability; Simulation; Wireless telecommunication; Ad hoc wireless network; Connectedness; Metric; clustering; Load balancing; Ad hoc network; Signal classification

This paper presents a novel k-hop compound metric based clustering (KCMBC) scheme, which uses the host connectivity and host mobility jointly to select cluster-heads. KCMBC is a fast convergent and load balancing clustering approach that is able to offer significant improvement on scalability for la...