An On-demand Clustering Mechanism for Hierarchical Routing Protocol in Ad hoc Networks

摘要：

Clustering is widely used in Ad hoc networks. The most important function of clustering is to provide management of large networks and assign the channel effectively. To maintain the hierarchical topology, the existing clustering mechanisms bring a lot of communication due to movement of the mobility and disappearance of nodes in the network, so there is vast control overhead. To avoid the problem, an on-demand clustering routing protocol (OCRP) is proposed. It eliminates the phase for clustering, and merges this phase with data transmission phase. OCRP adds a field for every data packet to identify five clustering states. Each node analyzes the clustering state field in the received packets, and decides how to switch its own clustering state.

关键词： clustering hierarchical routing control overhead clustering state

作者: HUANG Chuanhe ZHANG Yuanyuan JIA Xiaohua SHI Wenming CHENG Yong ZHOU Hao

作者单位: Computer School,Wuhan University,Wuhan,China Computer School,Shanghai Jiaotong University,Shanhai,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第二届IEEE无线通讯、网络技术暨移动计算国际会议

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2006-09-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）