An energy-efficient multi-hop routing protocol for health monitoring in wireless body area networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Subba Reddy Chavva ◽  
Ravi Sankar Sangam
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Body Area

scholarly journals An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for Reliable Data Transmission in Wireless Body Area Networks

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (19) ◽  
pp. 4238
Author(s):  
Yating Qu ◽  
Guoqiang Zheng ◽  
Honghai Wu ◽  
Baofeng Ji ◽  
Huahong Ma
Keyword(s):  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Energy Efficient Routing ◽  
Maximum Benefit ◽  
Benefit Function

Wireless body area networks will inevitably bring tremendous convenience to human society in future development, and also enable people to benefit from ubiquitous technological services. However, one of the reasons hindering development is the limited energy of the network nodes. Therefore, the energy consumption in the selection of the next hop must be minimized in multi-hop routing. To solve this problem, this paper proposes an energy efficient routing protocol for reliable data transmission in a wireless body area network. The protocol takes multiple parameters of the network node into account, such as residual energy, transmission efficiency, available bandwidth, and the number of hops to the sink. We construct the maximum benefit function to select the next hop node by normalizing the node parameters, and dynamically select the node with the largest function value as the next hop node. Based on the above work, the proposed method can achieve efficient multi-hop routing transmission of data and improve the reliability of network data transmission. Compared with the priority-based energy-efficient routing algorithm (PERA) and modified new-attempt routing protocol (NEW-ATTEMPT), the simulation results show that the proposed routing protocol uses the maximum benefit function to select the next hop node dynamically, which not only improves the reliability of data transmission, but also significantly improves the energy utilization efficiency of the node and prolongs the network lifetime.

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