CBRP Strategy for Two-Level Hierarchical Clustering in MANET's
Shuchita Upadhyaya, Vidushi Rawal · 2012
MANET is a self-organizing, self-configuring wireless ad-hoc network where all the nodes in a network are free to move anywhere anytime and does not need any pre-existing setup for communication. This dynamic behavior of nodes makes the communication in MANET most difficult task. Mobility is one of the major issues, which causes frequent link breakages and every time a new path for routing is to be searched. Clustering is the scheme where nodes with similar behavior are virtually grouped together and make the efficient routing. Each cluster is headed by a special node called cluster-head. In this paper, a new two-level hierarchical clustering formation scheme is presented aims to control the cluster stability of nodes and can reduce the cluster change rate to avoid frequent updates in network that creates unnecessary overheads. The routing protocol which is the extension of CBRP routing protocol is also implemented on the proposed cluster formation scheme to present packet transmission procedure and controls the network traffic.