A Load Balancing Energy Efficient and Optimized Clustering in Mobile Ad hoc Network using Ant Colony Optimization
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| Author | Jeena John, Pushpalakshmi R. |
| ISSN | 2306-708X |
| On Pages | 34-38 |
| Volume No. | 3 |
| Issue No. | 1 |
| Issue Date | ------- |
| Publishing Date | ------ |
| Keywords | Ant Colony Optimization, Clustering, Mobile Ad hoc Networks, workload |
Abstract
A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a self-configuring network of mobile devices connected by wireless links. The optimization of energy consumption and stability of the node have been identified as key problems in mobile ad hoc networks. Clustering of mobile nodes among separate domains has been proposed as an efficient approach to address those issues. This paper presents an effective algorithm that prolongs the network lifetime by selecting cluster heads in mobile ad hoc networks using Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). The algorithm considers various parameters such as residual energy, energy drain rate, mobility factor and overall communication workload. In the simulation study a comparison was conducted to measure the performance of our algorithm with Weighted Clustering Algorithm (WCA) in terms of energy consumption, communication workload and network lifetime. The result shows that our proposed work performs better than existing one and it results in more energy efficient and stabilized clusters
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