期刊名称：International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks
印刷版ISSN：0975-4679
电子版ISSN：0975-3834
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：1
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：A wireless ad-hoc network comprises of a set of wireless nodes and requires no fixed infrastructure. For efficient communication between nodes, ad-hoc networks are typically grouped in to clusters, where each cluster has a clusterhead (or Master). In our study, we will take a communication model that is derived from that of BlueTooth. Clusterhead nodes are responsible for the formation of clusters each consisting of a number of nodes (analog to cells in a cellular network) and maintenance of the topology of the network. Consequently, the clusterhead tend to become potential points of failures and naturally, there will be load imbalanced. Thus, it is important to consider load balancing in any clustering algorithm. In this paper, we consider the situation when each node has some load, given by the parameter forwarding Index.
