title: A survey of routing protocols in wireless body sensor networks.
abstract: Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs) constitute a subset of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) responsible for monitoring vital sign-related data of patients and accordingly route this data towards a sink. In routing sensed data towards sinks, WBSNs face some of the same routing challenges as general WSNs, but the unique requirements of WBSNs impose some more constraints that need to be addressed by the routing mechanisms. This paper identifies various issues and challenges in pursuit of effective routing in WBSNs. Furthermore, it provides a detailed literature review of the various existing routing protocols used in the WBSN domain by discussing their strengths and weaknesses.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310 Skudai Johor, Malaysia. ibjaved2@live.utm.my.
authors.forename: Javed Iqbal
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Bangash
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310 Skudai Johor, Malaysia. hanan@utm.my.
authors.forename: Abdul Hanan
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Abdullah
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310 Skudai Johor, Malaysia. anisi@utm.my.
authors.forename: Mohammad Hossein
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Anisi
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310 Skudai Johor, Malaysia. wkabdul2@live.utm.my.
authors.forename: Abdul Waheed
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Khan
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D015374:Biosensing Techniques; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D010361:Patients; D013686:Telemetry / Q000379:methods; D059015:Wireless Technology