Body-to-Body Cooperation in Internet of Medical Things: Toward Energy Efficiency Improvement

Dalal Abdulmohsin Hammood, Hasliza A. Rahim, Ahmed Alkhayyat and R. Badlishah Ahmad
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Dalal Abdulmohsin Hammood: Electrical Engineering Technical College, Department of Computer Technical Engineering, Middle Technical University (MTU), Al Doura 10022, Baghdad, Iraq
Hasliza A. Rahim: Bioelectromagnetics Research Group (BioEM), School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Kampus Pauh Putra, Arau 02600, Perlis, Malaysia
Ahmed Alkhayyat: Department of Computer Technical Engineering, College of Technical Engineering, The Islamic University, Najaf 54001, Iraq
R. Badlishah Ahmad: School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Kampus Pauh Putra, Arau 02600, Perlis, Malaysia

Future Internet, 2019, vol. 11, issue 11, 1-13

Abstract: Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) technologies provide suitability among physicians and patients because they are useful in numerous medical fields. Wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) are one of the most crucial technologies from within the IoMT evolution of the healthcare system, whereby each patient is monitored by low-powered and lightweight sensors. When the WBSNs are integrated into IoMT networks, they are quite likely to overlap each other; thus, cooperation between WBSN sensors is possible. In this paper, we consider communication between WBSNs and beyond their communication range. Therefore, we propose inter-WBAN cooperation for the IoMT system, which is also known as inter-WBAN cooperation in an IoMT environment (IWC-IoMT). In this paper, first, a proposed architecture for the IoT health-based system is investigated. Then, a mathematical model of the outage probability for the IWC-IoMT is derived. Finally, the energy efficiency of the IWC-IoT is analysed and inspected. The simulation and numerical results show that the IWC-IoMT (cooperative IoMT) system provides superior performance compared to the non-cooperative system.

Keywords: IoMT; WBSN; inter-WBSNs cooperation; outage probability; and energy efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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