Robust Clustering Algorithm (RCA): An Elegant Approach to Create Node Clusters without Dead Nodes

Within a short period, the growth of wireless devices which relies on corporate networks; the type of bandwidth and the use of connection sensitive applications are multiplying. The Major issues inspected in Wireless Ad hoc Networks are organizing, scalability and routing, which became hurdles in the win-win situation of Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET). Nodes clustering technique has been propounded in various domains of research work as the fruitful approach to resolve those problems. Just Clustering of nodes does not address these problems. In MANET nodes rely on forwarding packets for each other. In hybrid networks, the cooperation of all nodes should be towards a common goal. There are so many nodes which are in sleep mode, we need to identify those nodes and make them isolated. The proposed technique finds the cluster heads, forms node clusters, as well as, it detects and isolates dead nodes.