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Adaptive Clustering for Mobile Wireless Networks† Chunhung Richard Lin and Mario Gerla Abstract This paper describes a self-organizing, multihop, mobile radio network, which relies on a code division access scheme for multimedia support. In the proposed network architecture, nodes are organized into nonoverlapping clusters. The clusters are independently controlled and are dynamically reconfigured as nodes move. This network architecture has three main advantages. First, it provides spatial reuse of the bandwidth due to node clustering. Secondly, bandwidth can be shared or reserved in a controlled fashion in each cluster. Finally, the cluster algorithm is robust in the face of topological changes caused by node motion, node failure and node inser- tion/removal. Simulation shows that this architecture provides an efficient, stable infrastructure for the integration of different types of traffic in a dynamic radio network. 1. INTRODUCTION Personal communications and mobile computing require a wireless network infrastructure which is fast deployable, possibly multihop, and capable of multimedia service support. The first infras- tructure of this type was the Packet Radio Network (PRNET), developed in the 70’s to address the battlefield and disaster recovery communication requirements [16, 17]. PRNET was totally asynchronous and was based on a completely distributed architecture. It handled datagram traffic reasonably well, but did not offer efficient multimedia support. Recently, under the WAMIS (Wireless Adaptive Mobile Information Systems) [1] and Glomo ARPA programs several mobile, multimedia, multihop (M 3) wireless network architectures have been developed, which require some form