Work place: Department of Information Technology, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar-799022, Tripura, INDIA
E-mail: soumyabratat6@gmail.com
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Research Interests: Computer Networks, Network Architecture
Biography
Soumyabrata Talapatra is pursuing his Master in Computer Application degree from Tripura University. He has completed Bachelor in Computer Science degree from ICFAI University in 2011. His main research area includes Mobile Ad-Hoc network, Wireless Network and Mobile Communication.
By Soumyabrata Talapatra Alak Roy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2014.07.06, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2014
Clustering in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) has become a crucial research issue in modern days, because clustering can improve system performance of MANETs. As MANETs have limited battery power supply, cluster formation is costly in terms of power depletion of nodes in the cluster. This is due to the huge amount of messages transmission required during cluster formation and further data transfer. In this paper, an extensive literature survey of MANET clustering algorithm was done and lastly we proposed an algorithm for cluster head selection and cluster maintenance. The proposed algorithm uses self-organizing principle for binding a node with a cluster, which can reduce the explicit message passing in cluster maintenance. Thus, there is no need of extra message passing during further cluster maintenance. Unlike most usual methods, a cluster head in our proposed algorithm acts only as an identifying tag for cluster entity, further it performs as a typical node when it is acting as head. It does not perform any cluster maintenance function or hierarchical routing and hence is not a bottleneck to the functioning of the cluster.
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