A STUDY ON CLUSTERING SCHEMES IN MANET

Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) has become an essential technology in the field of research In MANET, Clustering plays a very important role in the field of research area, it offers several advantages which helps to improve stability and decreases the network overhead to increase the network efficiency. Each Clustering Technique uses various parameters for selecting Cluster head in cluster. Cluster head acts as a leader and maintains the whole network information which decreases the computation cost and routing overhead of the network in MANET. A large variety of approaches for ad hoc clustering have been developed by researchers which focus on different performance metrics. This paper presents a survey of different clustering techniques.