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An Adaptive Multihop Clustering Scheme for Ad Hoc Networks with High Mobility

Tomoyuki OHTA, Shinji INOUE, Yoshiaki KAKUDA, Kenji ISHIDA

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A clustering scheme for ad hoc networks is aimed at managing a number of mobile devices by utilizing hierarchical structure of the networks. In order to construct and maintain an effective hierarchical structure in ad hoc networks where mobile devices may move at high mobility, the following requirements must be satisfied. (1) The role of each mobile device for the hierarchical structure is adaptive to dynamic change of the topology of the ad hoc networks. The role of each mobile device should thus change autonomously based on local information in each mobile device. (2) The overhead for management of the hierarchical structure is small. The number of mobile devices in each cluster should thus be almost equivalent. This paper proposes an adaptive multihop clustering scheme for highly mobile ad hoc networks. The results obtained by extensive simulation experiments show that the proposed scheme does not depend on mobility and node degree of mobile devices in the network, which satisfy the above requirements.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E86-A No.7 pp.1689-1697
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2003/07/01
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Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Multi-dimensional Mobile Information Networks)
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