title: On Designing Thermal-Aware Localized QoS Routing Protocol for in-vivo Sensor Nodes in Wireless Body Area Networks.
abstract: In this paper, we address the thermal rise and Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning issue for an intra-body Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) having in-vivo sensor nodes. We propose a thermal-aware QoS routing protocol, called TLQoS, that facilitates the system in achieving desired QoS in terms of delay and reliability for diverse traffic types, as well as avoids the formation of highly heated nodes known as hotspot(s), and keeps the temperature rise along the network to an acceptable level. TLQoS exploits modular architecture wherein different modules perform integrated operations in providing multiple QoS service with lower temperature rise. To address the challenges of highly dynamic wireless environment inside the human body. TLQoS implements potential-based localized routing that requires only local neighborhood information. TLQoS avoids routing loop formation as well as reduces the number of hop traversal exploiting hybrid potential, and tuning a configurable parameter. We perform extensive simulations of TLQoS, and the results show that TLQoS has significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art approaches.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah-21589, Saudi Arabia. hemal.cu@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Muhammad Mostafa
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Monowar
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah-21589, Saudi Arabia. fbajaber@kau.edu.sa.
authors.forename: Fuad
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bajaber
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001831:Body Temperature / Q000502:physiology; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology / Q000379:methods*; D059015:Wireless Technology
keywords: in-vivo sensors; localized routing; thermal-aware; wireless body area networks