Effective Cluster Head Election Method for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Mobile ad-hoc network device has different properties in terms of transmission area, power consumption and battery backup. These diverse properties cause several issues in the data communication such as efficient routing, efficient utilization of finite resource constraints and QoS provisioning. Among of them, efficient routing takes major concerns for the mobile ad-hoc networks. Therefore, routing require to perform its procedure with focus of diverse properties of device. In this paper, initially routing procedure, design issues and alternative solutions were presented. Later, clustering and different cluster head election methods are also discussed. Along with this, efficient cluster head election method with the concentrating of heterogeneous constraints of deviceis also proposed. To evaluate the performance of proposed method, an experimental environment is considered which presents simulation of proposed method using network simulator (NS-2). The performance of proposed method is evaluated on the basis of throughput, network lifetime and routing overhead.