An Efficient Energy Aware Routing Mechanism for Wireless Body Area Networks

Advances in medical and communication technologies have empowered the development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). WBANs interconnect with miniature sensors placed on the human body to enable medical monitoring of patient health. However, the limited battery capacity, delay, and reliability of data transmission have brought challenges to the wider application of WBAN. Minimum consumption of energy and maximum satisfaction with the QoS requirements are essential design aims of the WBAN schemes. Therefore, a fuzzy control-based energy-aware routing protocol (EARP) is proposed in this paper, the proposed protocol establishes a fuzzy control model composed of remaining node energy and link quality, and the best forwarder node is determined by the processes of fuzzification, fuzzy inference, and defuzzification. The simulation results showed that compared with the performance of the existing EERDT and M-TSIMPLE protocols, the proposed EARP has better performance, including extending network lifetime and improving the reliability of data transmission.

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A Probabilistic Energy-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks

2014 IEEE 80th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2014-Fall) ◽

10.1109/vtcfall.2014.6965839 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Md Tanvir Ishtaique ul Huque ◽

Kumudu S. Munasinghe ◽

Abbas Jamalipour

Keyword(s):

Routing Protocol ◽

Body Area Networks ◽

Wireless Body Area Networks ◽

Body Area ◽

Energy Aware ◽

Energy Aware Routing

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Energy-aware topology design for wireless body area networks

2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) ◽

10.1109/icc.2012.6363949 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

Jocelyne Elias ◽

Ahmed Mehaoua

Keyword(s):

Body Area Networks ◽

Wireless Body Area Networks ◽

Topology Design ◽

Body Area ◽

Energy Aware

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Green Communication for Wireless Body Area Networks: Energy Aware Link Efficient Routing Approach

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s18103237 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (10) ◽

pp. 3237 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Muhammad Anwar ◽

Abdul Abdullah ◽

Ayman Altameem ◽

Kashif Qureshi ◽

Farhan Masud ◽

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Keyword(s):

Data Communication ◽

Body Area Networks ◽

Wireless Body Area Networks ◽

Sensor Nodes ◽

Cost Calculation ◽

Body Area ◽

Energy Aware ◽

Green Communication ◽

Link Efficiency ◽

Path Cost

Recent technological advancement in wireless communication has led to the invention of wireless body area networks (WBANs), a cutting-edge technology in healthcare applications. WBANs interconnect with intelligent and miniaturized biomedical sensor nodes placed on human body to an unattended monitoring of physiological parameters of the patient. These sensors are equipped with limited resources in terms of computation, storage, and battery power. The data communication in WBANs is a resource hungry process, especially in terms of energy. One of the most significant challenges in this network is to design energy efficient next-hop node selection framework. Therefore, this paper presents a green communication framework focusing on an energy aware link efficient routing approach for WBANs (ELR-W). Firstly, a link efficiency-oriented network model is presented considering beaconing information and network initialization process. Secondly, a path cost calculation model is derived focusing on energy aware link efficiency. A complete operational framework ELR-W is developed considering energy aware next-hop link selection by utilizing the network and path cost model. The comparative performance evaluation attests the energy-oriented benefit of the proposed framework as compared to the state-of-the-art techniques. It reveals a significant enhancement in body area networking in terms of various energy-oriented metrics under medical environments.

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