scholarly journals Adaptive Thermal-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal Jamil ◽  
Muhammad Azhar Iqbal ◽  
Rashid Amin ◽  
DoHyeun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Rise ◽  
Routing Algorithm ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Body Tissues ◽  
Increasing Temperature

The recent advancement in information technology and evolving of the (IoT) shifted the traditional medical approach to patient-oriented approach (e.g., Telemedicine/Telemonitoring). IoT permits several services including sensing, processing and communicating information with physical and bio-medical constraints. Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) handles the issues pertaining to the medical purposes in the form of sensor nodes and connected network. The WBAN takes human physiological data as an input to subsequently monitor the patient conditions that are transferred to other IoT components for analysis. Such monitoring and analysis demand a cohesive routing approach to ensure the safe and in-time transfer of data. The temperature rise of bio-medical sensor nodes makes the entire routing operation very crucial because the temperature of implanted nodes rises and ultimately damages body tissues. This needs dispersion in data transmission among different nodes by opting various available routes while avoiding temperature rise. In this paper, we present Adaptive Thermal-Aware Routing algorithm for WBAN. The ATAR is designed to overcome the temperature rise issue of implanted bio-medical sensors nodes. The new protocol is based on Multi-Ring Routing approach to find an alternative route in the case of increasing temperature. The simulation results indicate that proposed protocol is more efficient in terms of temperature rise and throughput than existing approaches.

scholarly journals E-PAP: Enhanced Priority Aware Protocol for Reliable Communication in Wireless Body Area Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 340-343
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a collection of miniaturized sensing nodes and coordinator nodes. These sensing nodes are placed in, on and around the body for uninterrupted monitoring of physiological data for medical applications. The main application carrier of WBAN is the human body and due to human body movement and physiological changes, the WBAN traffic fluctuates greatly. This network traffic fluctuation requires good network adaptability. In addition to traffic fluctuations, energy consumption is another key problem with WBANs as sensing nodes are very small in size. This paper design a reliable protocol by extending the MAC protocol for reducing energy consumption, PAP algorithm to decide data transmission rate and JOAR algorithm to select the optimize path for the data transmission. The performance of the algorithm outperforms other state of art algorithms to shows its significance.

scholarly journals Equalized Energy Consumption in Wireless Body Area Networks for a Prolonged Network Lifetime

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam El Azhari ◽  
Nadya El Moussaid ◽  
Ahmed Toumanari ◽  
Rachid Latif
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Network Lifetime ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Residual Energy ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Distributed Sensors

The phenomenal advances in electronics contributed to a widespread use of distributed sensors in wireless communications. A set of biosensors can be deployed or implanted in the human body to form a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), where various WBAN PHY layers are utilized. The WBAN allows the measurement of physiological data, which is forwarded by the gateway to the base station for analysis purposes. The main issue in conceiving a WBAN communication mechanism is to manage the residual energy of sensors. The mobile agent system has been widely applied for surveillance applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). It consists in dispatching one or more mobile agents simultaneously to collect data, while following a predetermined optimum itinerary. The continuous use of the optimal itinerary leads to a rapid depletion of sensor nodes batteries, which minimizes the network lifetime. This paper presents a new algorithm to equalize the energy consumption among sensor motes. The algorithm exploits all the available paths towards the destination and classifies them with respect to the end-to-end delay and the overall energy consumption. The proposed algorithm performs better compared to the optimal routing path. It increases the network lifetime to the maximum by postponing routing of data via the most-recently used path, and it also maintains data delivery within the delay interval threshold.

scholarly journals A lightweight verifiable outsourced decryption of attribute-based encryption scheme for blockchain-enabled wireless body area network in fog computing

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 155014772090679
Author(s):  
Rui Guo ◽  
Chaoyuan Zhuang ◽  
Huixian Shi ◽  
Yinghui Zhang ◽  
Dong Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Fog Computing ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Encryption Scheme ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Attribute Based Encryption ◽  
Outsourced Decryption

Wireless body area network includes some tiny wearable sensors for monitoring the physiological data of user, which has been a promising method of promoting the quality and efficiency greatly in healthcare. The collected physical signs are aggregated into the medical documents and uploaded to cloud server for utilizing by the remote user. As these files are highly sensitive privacy data, there is a vital challenge that constructs a secure and efficient communication architecture in this application scenario. Based on this standpoint, we present a lightweight verifiability ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption protocol with outsourced decryption in this article. Specifically, our construction enjoys the following six features: (1) Although the outsourced decryption enables to save the computation overhead of the data user sharply in an attribute-based encryption scheme, the ciphertext is out of control and the correctness cannot be guaranteed by the data owner. The proposal provides the verifiability of ciphertext that ensures the user to check the correctness efficiently. (2) The size of the ciphertext is constant that is not increased with the complexity of attribute and access structure. (3) For Internet of Things devices, it introduces the fog computing into our protocol for the purpose of low latency and relation interactions, which has virtually saved the bandwidth. (4) With the help of blockchain technique, we encapsulate the hash value of public parameter, original and transformed ciphertext and transformed key into a block, so that the tamper-resistance is facilitated against an adversary from inside and outside the system. (5) In the standard model, we prove that it is selectively chosen-plaintext attack-secure and verifiable provided that the computational bilinear Diffie–Hellman assumption holds. (6) It implements this protocol and shows the result of performance measurement, which indicates a significant reduction on communication and computation costs burden on every entity in wireless body area network.

scholarly journals The Attenuation Characteristics of the Body Tissue on Frequency Function in WBAN Channel

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Achmad Mauludiyanto ◽  
Gamantyo Hendrantoro ◽  
Muhammad Fachry Nova
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Tissue ◽  
Frequency Function ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Body Tissues ◽  
Significant Difference

The Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) refers to a communication network between sensors placed on the inside, on the surface, or around the body wirelessly. WBAN system cannot be separated from body tissues. Body tissues also have electrical properties depending on frequency. Therefore, body tissue can affect the phenomena occurring in radio wave propagation in the WBAN channel. One of the phenomena is attenuation. This study investigates the impacts of body tissue on the WBAN channel and the effects of frequency on the attenuation of body tissue in the WBAN channel. The measurement of magnitude response was carried out with the human body as the measurement object by utilizing the S21 parameter measurement with a vector network analyzer. In NLOS conditions, a human body was located between two coplanar Vivaldi antenna. Measurements were conducted on the head, chest, and abdomen. The frequency used was in the range of 2 GHz to 6 GHz. The body tissue attenuation was obtained by finding the difference between the magnitude measurement response on the LOS and NLOS conditions. The attenuation data were analyzed using statistical and numerical analysis to determine the effect of frequency on the attenuation of the human body tissues. Based on the analysis results, it was identified that the frequency affected the human body tissue attenuation. The enhancement attenuation of the human body tissues occurred when the frequency was higher. Moreover, there was a significant difference in the body tissue attenuation in different parts of the body.Keywords: attenuation, body tissues, s-parameters, wireless body area network.

scholarly journals Real-time Health Monitoring System Using Wireless Body Area Network

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-30
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Healthcare Applications

Wireless body area network (WBAN) being a sub-domain of wireless sensor network (WSN) is a new emerging technology for healthcare applications. A WBAN consists of low-power tiny wireless nodes placed on or around the human body that continuously observe vital health signs of a patient. These sensors are capable of sending information of physiological parameters taken from human body to other devices for diagnosis procedures and prescription. WBAN provides ubiquitous healthcare services and enables greater mobility without restricting human normal activities, as the medical personnel can observe the patient health conditions based on the data received through the wireless network. This research work provides a WBAN based healthcare monitoring system that can provide the electrocardiogram (ECG), heartbeat, and human body temperature information. The wireless transmission of the received data from human body is performed by using Zigbee IEEE802.15.4 communication standard. The physiological data will be communicated to remote medical server where data is stored and analyzed. In case any disease is diagnosed, medical personnel can provide immediate assistance to the patients.

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