Reliable and Efficient Data Communication Protocol for WBAN-Based Healthcare Systems

Nawel Yessad and Mawloud Omar
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Nawel Yessad: Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of Bejaia, Bejaia, Algeria
Mawloud Omar: Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of Bejaia, Bejaia, Algeria

International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC), 2018, vol. 9, issue 2, 19-37

Abstract: Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) become very attractive in the research community area and are getting growing interest because of their suitability for medical applications. They are designed such, they can be located on, in or around the patient body and are used to monitor medical signs and forward them to medical servers. Proficient energy and Quality of Service (QoS) are the main requirements for a dependable design in a such networks. In this article, the authors propose a reliable and power efficient routing approach for healthcare systems with the aim to balance the trade-off between the QoS requirements and the energy consumption. Their approach operates in an efficient computation way, where the sink device manages the routing paths avoiding the sensors to be involved in computation and consequently on the energy consumption. They conducted intensive simulations and the obtained results show that Their approach offers effective results in terms of transmission load, response time and energy consumption.

Date: 2018
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