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A clustering scheme for ad hoc networks is aimed at managing a number of mobile devices
by utilizing hierarchical structure of the networks. In order to construct and maintain an effective
hierarchical structure in ad hoc networks where mobile devices may move at high mobility, the
following requirements must be satisfied. The role of each mobile device for the hierarchical
structure is adaptive to dynamic change of the topology of the ad hoc networks. The role of each
mobile device should thus change autonomously based on the local information. The overhead for management of the hierarchical structure is small. The number of mobile devices in each cluster should thus be almost equivalent. This paper proposes an adaptive multihop clustering scheme for highly mobile ad hoc networks. The results obtained by extensive simulation experiments show that the proposed scheme does not depend on mobility and node degree of mobile devices in the ad hoc network, which satisfy the above requirements.