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Data-Centric Routing for Intra Wireless Body Sensor Networks

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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.

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  1. Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

    Javed Iqbal Bangash, Abdul Waheed Khan & Abdul Hanan Abdullah

  2. Department of Computing and Technology, Abasyn University, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Javed Iqbal Bangash

  3. Department of Computer Science, Qurtuba University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Abdul Waheed Khan

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Bangash, J.I., Khan, A.W. & Abdullah, A.H. Data-Centric Routing for Intra Wireless Body Sensor Networks. J Med Syst 39, 91 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-015-0268-5

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