%0 Conference Proceedings %T Improving clustering techniques in wireless sensor networks using thinning process %+ Méthodes et modèles pour les réseaux (METHODES-SAMOVAR) %+ Département Réseaux et Services de Télécommunications (TSP - RST) %+ Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux (SAMOVAR) %+ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) %+ Department of Computer Science and Engineering [Kanpur] (CSE) %A Becker, Monique %A Gupta, Ashish %A Marot, Michel %A Singh, Harmeet %Z Part 5: Communication and Computer Networks %< avec comité de lecture %Z 11646 %( Lecture Notes in Computer Science %B Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (PERFORM) %C Vienne, Austria %Y Karin Anna Hummel %Y Helmut Hlavacs %Y Wilfried Gansterer %I Springer %3 Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems. Milestones and Future Challenges %V LNCS-6821 %P 203-214 %8 2010-10-14 %D 2010 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-25575-5_17 %K Sensor networks %K Clustering %K Thinning process %Z Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]Conference papers %X We propose a rapid cluster formation algorithm using a thinning technique : rC-MHP(rapid Clustering inspired from Matérn Hard-Core Process). In order to prove its performance, it is compared with a well known cluster formation heuristic: Max-Min. Experimental results show that rC-MHP outperforms Max-Min in terms of messages needed to choose the cluster head, cluster head maintenance and memory requirement, comprehensively in sparse as well as in dense networks. We show that rC-MHP has a scalable behavior and it is very easy to implement. rC-MHP can be used as an efficient clustering technique %G English %Z TC 6 %Z TC 7 %Z WG 6.3 %Z WG 7.3 %2 https://hal.science/hal-01347786/document %2 https://hal.science/hal-01347786/file/978-3-642-25575-5_17_Chapter.pdf %L hal-01347786 %U https://hal.science/hal-01347786 %~ INSTITUT-TELECOM %~ CNRS %~ TELECOM-SUDPARIS %~ IFIP-LNCS %~ IFIP %~ IFIP-TC %~ IFIP-WG %~ IFIP-TC6 %~ IFIP-LNCS-6821 %~ IFIP-PERFORM %~ IFIP-WG6-3 %~ IFIP-WG7-3 %~ INSTITUTS-TELECOM