Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Clustering Schemes in MANETs: Performance Evaluation, Open Challenges, and Proposed Solutions

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Clustering Schemes in MANETs: Performance Evaluation, Open Challenges, and Proposed Solutions,"
by T. Rahman, I. Ullah, A. U. Rehman and R. A. Naqvi,in IEEE Access, vol. 8, January 2020, pp. 25135-25158

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE’s Publication Principles.

This paper contains a figure (Figure 18) that was copied from the paper cited below. The figure was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

"BICSF: Bio-Inspired Clustering Scheme for FANETs,"
by A. Khan, F. Aftab and Z. Zhang,in IEEE Access, vol. 7, March 2019, pp. 31446-31456


Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have recently received a lot of attention from researchers due to their ease of deployment and versatility. Clustering is one of the most efficient ways to coordinate routing in MANETs to improve network performance using different attributes and metrics. In this paper, the authors have extensively studied clustering schemes and divided the schemes into multiple types based on the Cluster Head (CH) selection criteria, which provides a good understanding of how each type of clustering algorithm differs from each other. The authors analyzed the performance of existing schemes based on the quality of service (QoS) metrics. Based on findings, the authors clarified some important tradeoffs between QoS metrics and also established some important factors influencing the efficiency of clustering schemes. These studies also contain open research challenges and proposed solutions to improve the performance of clustering schemes.