AN APPROACH ON CLUSTER-BASED ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR DELAY-TOLERANT MOBILE NETWORKS(DTMNS)

Abstract

In proposed paper distributed clustering scheme and proposes a cluster-based routing protocol for Delay- Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMNs). The basic idea is to distributively group mobile nodes with similar mobility pattern into a cluster, which can then interchangeably share their resources for overhead reduction and load balancing, aiming to achieve efficient and scalable routing in DTMN. Due to the lack of continuous communications among mobile nodes and possible errors in the estimation of nodal contact probability, convergence and stability become major challenges in distributed clustering in DTMN. To this end, an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) scheme is employed for on-line updating nodal contact probability, with its mean proven to converge to the true contact probability. Based on nodal contact probabilities, a set of functions including Sync (), Leave (), and Join () are devised for cluster formation and gateway selection. Finally, the gateway nodes exchange network information and perform routing.