title: A novel Smart Routing Protocol for remote health monitoring in Medical Wireless Networks.
abstract: In a Medical Wireless Network (MWN), sensors constantly monitor patient's physiological condition and movement. Inter-MWN communications are set up between the Patient Server and one or more Centralized Coordinators. However, MWNs require protocols with little energy consumption and the self-organizing attribute perceived in ad-hoc networks. The proposed Smart Routing Protocol (SRP) selects only the nodes with a higher residual energy and lower traffic density for routing. This approach enhances cooperation among the nodes of a Mobile Ad Hoc Network. Consequently, SRP produces better results than the existing protocols, namely Conditional Min-Max Battery Cost Routing, Min-Max Battery Cost Routing and AdHoc On-demand Distance Vector in terms of network parameters. The performance of the erstwhile schemes for routing protocols is evaluated using the network simulator Qualnet v 4.5.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bannariamman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam 638 401, India.
authors.forename: T V P
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Sundararajan
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bannariamman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam 638 401, India.
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Sumithra
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bannariamman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam 638 401, India Sri Krishna College of Technology, Coimbatore, 641 042.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maheswar
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004581:Electronics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D059015:Wireless Technology
keywords: energy; medical wireless network; routing; routing protocol; selfishness