DESIGNING AN OPPORTUNISTIC ROUTING SCHEME FOR ADAPTIVE CLUSTERING IN MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORKS

M. Viswanathan

Abstract: Mobile networks have received great deal of attention during last few decades due to their potential applications such as large scale, improved flexibility and reduced costs. This proposed work addresses two problems associated with mobile network such as method to reduce overhead between the nodes, and energy balanced routing of packets by Co-Operative opportunistic routing for cluster based communication. We propose a modified algorithm that uses On-Demand Opportunistic Group mobility based clustering (ODOGMBC) for forming the cluster and predicting the cluster mobility by neighbourhood update algorithm. Cluster formation involves election of a mobile node as Cluster head. Each cluster comprises of cluster head and non-cluster head node that forms a cluster dynamically. Each node in the network continuously finds it neighbour by communicating with them, and nodes have consistent updated routing information in route cache by neighbourhood update algorithm. In routing process packet forwarded by the source node is updated by intermediate forwarder if topology undergo changes. This opportunistic routing scheme provides responsive data transportation and managing the node effectively, even in heavily loaded environment. Thus, our proposed routing technique helps us to reduce overhead, increases efficiency and better control of path selection

Keywords: Clustering, Forwarder, MANET, Prediction, Reactive, opportunistic routing

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0203026