Load Balancing Performance of Clustering Algorithms for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
Poonam Pahuja, Tarun Shrimali · 2014
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are collection of distributed nodes which communicate using multi-hop wireless links with frequent node mobility. The frequent mobility of nodes leads network partition and futile communication. So, there need an interconnection technique that should guarantee network connectivity, efficient routing and maintain network performance in MANET. Clustering has become an important approach to manage MANETs. This paper proposed Weighted Cluster Based Distributed Spanning Tree (WCBDST) routing technique and its performance analysis with existing clustering algorithm Cluster Based Routing Protocol (CBRP), Highest Connectivity Clustering (HCC) and Weighted Clustering Algorithm (WCA) in terms of node-reaffiliation, node re-election, number of cluster heads and cluster stability to improve load balancing. We assumed a predefined threshold for the number of nodes to be included in a cluster head to improve the load balancing.