Safety of Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Clustering Algorithm

2. A Survey Of Clustering Schemes

In this section, a review of some approaches of clustering in ad-hoc networks and WSNs is provided. A summary of all the examined algorithms is presented in Table 1. Using this table, we want to further clarify the main features of different types of clustering approaches. Furthermore, this way of presenting makes easier the comparison between various techniques. The first column specifies the algorithm name. The second column specifies the authors of the proposed approach. The other columns are devoted to the most representative grouping functions with which we can easily see the basic differences and common aspects of different approaches. The meaning of each column is explained in the following text: