Design and Analysis of Load Balancing Clusters in wireless Adhoc Network
G. Ravi Kumar, Neeraj Tyagi · 2011
Ad hoc networks are a collection of nodes which move freely and independently and communicate with other node through wireless links. These networks are logically represented as a set of clusters by grouping nodes which are in close proximity with one another. Clusterheads form the backbone and this clusterhead is used to route packets from one node to other nodes in the cluster. Independent nodes are supposed to have non-deterministic mobility pattern. Different heuristics use different policies to select clusterheads.Many of these strategies are in favor of some node and these nodes show greater responsibility and try to deplete their energy faster, it lead them to drop out of the network. Therefore, there is a need of loadbalancing among clusterheads so that all nodes have the opportunity to serve as a clusterhead. I present a load balancing approach (heuristic) to increase the life of a clusterhead as max. as possible before the exemption of this node as clusterhead . This helps in equal distribution of the responsibility of acting as clusterheads among all nodes. Thus, the approach (heuristic) insures fairness and stability