Ex-PAC: An improved clustering technique for ad hoc network.

The present world has been dominated by wireless ad hoc communication network. Having understood the purpose of ad hoc scenario in this real world, the establishment of network without clustering will not fall down to the line of expectation. Thus, the cluster formation algorithm has been an essential step towards making the network to perform efficiently. This paper proposes Ex-PAC as a cluster formation procedure and its performance has been compared against K-means. The programming language C++ has been used to implement these two algorithms and the results are tabulated. Obviously the findings say, Ex-PAC has an edge over K-means in terms of computation time and handling large sets of data in the process of making clusters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]