Fuzzy Logic Based Energy Aware Lustering Protocol (Fl-EACP) For Heterogeneous Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

This paper aims to design and develop energy conscious reliable routing protocol based on fuzzy logic towards clustering in wireless ad hoc networks. For the past several decades the clustering problem for wireless ad hoc networks is proposed by several researchers. This research work takes the objective of energy conscious routing since nodes present in the wireless ad hoc networks are battery powered. This paper comprises of fuzzy logic If-Then rules to formulate the objective by using metrics such as data-rate and residual energy. By using the EC-algorithm along with fuzzy if-then rules, FL-EACP is designed and developed. Performance metrics such as average number of clusters, reaffiliation rate and dominant set update are taken into account for comparing the proposed routing protocol with WCA algorithm. Simulations are done using NS2 and the simulated results shows that the proposed FLEACP outperforms WCA. Keywords— Clustering, Energy conscious, Routing, Mobile Ad hoc Networks, Data rate.