Effective Clustering Technique for Selecting Cluster Heads and Super Cluster Head in MANET

Mobile ad Hoc Network consists of a group of mobile nodes which can communicate with each other without any infrastructure. This feature makes them self organized and rapidly deployable. Clustering is a technique used in these networks for best utilization of available bandwidth and for prolonging the network life time also. The entire group of nodes participate in election of the Cluster Head which is most of the times used for network administration but sometimes can also be used for the task of intrusion detection i.e. network security. Super Cluster Head is a node which can be a part of network but not itself a cluster Head and is used to detect a misbehaving Cluster Head not doing the task of intrusion detection properly. In this paper an effective clustering technique has been proposed which is being used for the election of Cluster Heads and Super Cluster Head. It uses five parameters i.e. Communication range, Hop Count, Battery Power, Relative Velocity, Fairness at a time to select a Cluster Head. Always an efficient node which passes all of the criteria will become the Cluster Head. After the selection of Cluster Heads, the election is performed to select a Super Cluster Head. A node is selected as a Super Cluster Head only if it is having maximum battery power and it is not a Cluster Head. The technique used chooses the best of the nodes to become Cluster Head and Super Cluster Head. This technique seems to increase network life time also because of the slow dissipation of the energy.