TY - JOUR T1 - Two Hop Clustering Scheme for Pseudolinear Mobile Ad Hoc Network (THPM) AU - Zaman, Ambreen AU - Amjad, Mahfida AU - Sakib, Kazi JO - Asian Journal of Information Technology VL - 11 IS - 6 SP - 261 EP - 269 PY - 2012 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1682-3915 DO - ajit.2012.261.269 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2012.261.269 KW - Multi hop clustering KW -pseudolinear mobile ad hoc network KW -doppler value KW -network scalability KW -uniform KW -node scheme AB - One hop clustering scheme in Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) adopts the shorter path technique for packet transmission. However, its maintenance overhead is significant compared to others. This study presents a Two Hop Clustering Scheme for Pseudolinear Mobile Ad hoc Network (THPM) which uses the node connectivity and node mobility jointly to form a cluster which will be able to improve scalability. In this scheme, node mobility has been taken into account in terms of the average clusterhead lifetime of holding nodes to increase the network stability. Simulation results show that the clusters created by THPM retain more uniform cluster size, clusterhead lifetime and average number of nodes in each cluster up to 45~50% than the existing scheme. ER -