This thesis proposes a clustering algorithm for vehicular communication networks. A novel clustering metric and an improved clustering framework are introduced. The novel clustering metric, network criticality, is a global metric on undirected graphs which quantifies the robustness of the graph against changes in environmental parameters, and point-to-point network criticality is also defined to measure the resistance between different points of a graph. We localize the notion of network criticality for a node of a vehicular network which can potentially be promoted as the cluster header. We use the localized notion of node criticality in conjunction with a universal link metric, Link Expiration Time (LET), to derive a clustering algorithm for the vehicular network. We employ a distributed multi-hop clustering algorithm based on the notion of network criticality. Simulation results show that the proposed clustering algorithm forms a more robust cluster structure.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/29590 |
| Date | 25 August 2011 |
| Creators | Li, Weiwei |
| Contributors | Leon-Garcia, Alberto |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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