title: Data-Centric Routing for Intra Wireless Body Sensor Networks.
abstract: A significant proportion of the worldwide population is of the elderly people living with chronic diseases that result in high health-care cost. To provide continuous health monitoring with minimal health-care cost, Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs) has been recently emerged as a promising technology. Depending on nature of sensory data, WBSNs might require a high level of Quality of Service (QoS) both in terms of delay and reliability during data reporting phase. In this paper, we propose a data-centric routing for intra WBSNs that adapts the routing strategy in accordance with the nature of data, temperature rise issue of the implanted bio-medical sensors due to electromagnetic wave absorption, and high and dynamic path loss caused by postural movement of human body and in-body wireless communication. We consider the network models both with and without relay nodes in our simulations. Due to the multi-facet routing strategy, the proposed data-centric routing achieves better performance in terms of delay, reliability, temperature rise, and energy consumption when compared with other state-of-the-art.
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.forename: Abdul Waheed
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: Abdul Hanan
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Abdullah
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001831:Body Temperature; D060733:Electromagnetic Radiation; D002149:Energy Intake; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D059015:Wireless Technology