A Delay-aware Clustering Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Jin Sun, Kan Liu · 2005
The proliferation of small wireless devices today has made the development of scalable ad hoc wireless protocols critical to their success. This paper presents design and evaluation of a distributed, delay-aware clustering protocol, which forms clusters based on node’s average media access delay. We also develop intra/inter-cluster routing to utilize the cluster structure, in which cluster heads do not perform any special functionality in data forwarding for its members but take responsibility in control and routing information dissemination. The simulation result shows our protocol outperforms AODV in terms of routing control overhead and network throughput.