An ad hoc network is a multihop wireless communication network supporting mobile users
without any existing infrastructure. To become commercially successful, the technology must …

An ad hoc network is a self-organized and distributed entity consisting of a number of mobile
stations (MS) without the coordination of any centralized access point. Clustering is one of …

A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is an infrastructureless wireless network that can
support highly dynamic mobile units. The multi-hop feature of a MANET suggests the use of …

Flat ad hoc architectures are not scalable. In order to overcome this major drawback,
hierarchical routing is introduced since it is found to be more effective. The main challenge …

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) can be represented by a set of logical clusters with
clusterheads (CHs) acting like virtual base-stations, hence forming a wireless virtual …

This paper describes a two-level hierarchical architecture for ad hoc networks to resolve the
routing scalability problem. Mobile hosts are organized into nonoverlapping clusters and …

Clustering is a method by which nodes are hierarchically organized on the basis of their
relative proximity to one another. Routes can be recorded hierarchically, across clusters, to …

In this paper, we propose a distributed clustering algorithm for a multi-hop packet radio
network. These types of networks, also known as ad hoc networks, are dynamic in nature …

Many clustering schemes have been proposed for ad hoc networks. A systematic
classification of these clustering schemes enables one to better understand and make …

An ad hoc network is a multihop wireless communication network supporting mobile users.
Network performance degradation is a major problem as the network becomes larger …