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ArticleJournal of healthcare engineering2021

Multiconstraint-Aware Routing Mechanism for Wireless Body Sensor Networks.

Javed Iqbal Bangash, Abdul Waheed Khan, Asfandyar Khan, Atif Khan, M Irfan Uddin, Qiaozhi Hua

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Article in Journal of healthcare engineering, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Javed Iqbal BangashInstitute of Computer Sciences and IT, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-5622-0796
Abdul Waheed KhanDepartment of IT and Computer Science, Pak-Austria Fachhochschule-Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Haripur, Pakistan.
Asfandyar KhanInstitute of Computer Sciences and IT, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan.
Atif KhanDepartment of Computer Science, Islamia College Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-3628-0262
M Irfan UddinInstitute of Computing, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat 26000, Pakistan.
Qiaozhi HuaComputer School, Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang 441000, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5999-4498
Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences · PKHubei University of Arts and Science · CNKohat University of Science and Technology · PKThe University of Agriculture, Peshawar · PK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The merger of wireless sensor technologies, pervasive computing, and biomedical engineering has resulted in the emergence of wireless body sensor network (WBSN). WBSNs assist human beings in various monitoring applications such as health-care, entertainment, rehabilitation systems, and sports. Life-critical health-care applications of WBSNs consider both reliability and delay as major Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. In addition to the common limitations and challenges of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), WBSNs pose distinct constraints due to the behavior and chemistry of the human body. The biomedical sensor nodes (BMSNs) adopt multihop communication while reporting the heterogeneous natured physiological parameters to the nearby base station also called local coordinator. Routing in WBSNs becomes a challenging job due to the necessary QoS considerations, overheated in-body BMSNs, and high and dynamic path loss. To the best of our knowledge, none of the existing routing protocols integrate the aforementioned issues in their designs. In this research work, a multiconstraint-aware routing mechanism (modular-based) is proposed which considers the QoS parameters, dynamic and high path loss, and the overheated nodes issue. Two types of network frameworks, with and without relay/forwarder nodes, are being used. The data packets containing physiological parameters of the human body are categorized into delay-constrained, reliability-constrained, critical (both delay- and reliability-constrained), and nonconstrained data packets. NS-2 is being used to carry out the simulations of the proposed mechanism. The simulation results reveal that the proposed mechanism has improved the QoS-aware routing for WBSNs by adopting the proposed multiconstraint-aware strategy.

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AlgorithmsComputer Communication NetworksWireless TechnologyComputer SimulationHumansReproducibility of ResultsWearable Electronic Devices

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PMID33868621
PMCPMC8032516
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