Characteristics of Autonomously Configured Structure Formation Based on Power Consumption and Data Transfer Efficiency

In MANETs (mobile ad hoc networks), mobile terminals can connect with each other directly and constitute communication networks without network infrastructure such as base stations and access points of wireless LANs that are connected to wired backbone networks. Therefore, MANETs are expected to be tolerant networks in an emergency situation (e.g., large earthquake) in which most infrastructure is destroyed. We have proposed an autonomous decentralized structure formation technology based on local interaction as the terminals' action method and, moreover, have applied the proposed structure formation technology to the autonomous decentralized clustering method of MANETs. In addition, we have evaluated the characteristics of this technology from the point of view of the power consumption during "cluster configuration." However, this technology has previously not been evaluated in terms of the characteristics of the power consumption and data transfer efficiency at the time of packet routing. In this paper, we compare the proposed clustering model with a bio-inspired model that is based on the reaction diffusion equation in the routing of the data.

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