Mobility and energy aware distributed clustering protocol for ad hoc sensor networks

In a ad hoc sensor networks node mobility would make clustering very challenging since the node membership will dynamically change, forcing clusters to evolve over time. In this paper, a novel distributed clustering approach is proposed for a long-lived ad hoc sensor networks. This work presents a protocol that periodically selects cluster heads according to a hybrid of the node mobility and node residual energy. The proposed protocol shows better performances compared to present sate of art approaches. The claims made are validated using OMNET++ on a network of 1000 nodes distributed randomly.