A Load-Balancing and Weighted Clustering Algorithm in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networkx

A Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) is a collection of two or more mobile devices (e.g. PDAs, laptop, cell phones, etc.), with multi-hop wireless communication. These nodes or devices can communicate with other nodes directly within or outside their transmission range. In previous research on mobile ad-hoc network indicated to use of clustering algorithm because it simplifies routing and can improve the performance of flexibility and scalability in the network. In this paper, we propose that the enhancement on weighted clustering algorithm (EWCA), leads to a high degree of stability in the network and improves the load balancing. In this simulation study, a comparison was conducted to measure the performance of our algorithm with original WCA in terms of numbers of clusters formed with satisfy load balancing , topology stability, and number of clusterhead change.