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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Multipath Routing in Wireless Body Area Sensor Network for Healthcare Monitoring.

Shuja Akbar, Muhammad Mohsin Mehdi, M Hasan Jamal, Imran Raza, Syed Asad Hussain, Jose Breñosa, Julio César Martínez Espinosa, Alina Eugenia Pascual Barrera, Imran Ashraf

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Shuja AkbarDepartment of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Muhammad Mohsin MehdiDepartment of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-3440-417X
M Hasan JamalDepartment of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-0114-0887
Imran RazaDepartment of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-3118-4634
Syed Asad HussainDepartment of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Jose BreñosaHigher Polytechnic School, Universidad Europea del Atlántico, Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1159-7968
Julio César Martínez EspinosaHigher Polytechnic School, Universidad Europea del Atlántico, Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4041-9426
Alina Eugenia Pascual BarreraHigher Polytechnic School, Universidad Europea del Atlántico, Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain.
Imran AshrafDepartment of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-8271-6496

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Abstract

Mobility and low energy consumption are considered the main requirements for wireless body area sensor networks (WBASN) used in healthcare monitoring systems (HMS). In HMS, battery-powered sensor nodes with limited energy are used to obtain vital statistics about the body. Hence, energy-efficient schemes are desired to maintain long-term and steady connectivity of the sensor nodes. A sheer amount of energy is consumed in activities such as idle listening, excessive transmission and reception of control messages, packet collisions and retransmission of packets, and poor path selection, that may lead to more energy consumption. A combination of adaptive scheduling with an energy-efficient protocol can help select an appropriate path at a suitable time to minimize the control overhead, energy consumption, packet collision, and excessive idle listening. This paper proposes a region-based energy-efficient multipath routing (REMR) approach that divides the entire sensor network into clusters with preferably multiple candidates to represent each cluster. The cluster representatives (CRs) route packets through various clusters. For routing, the energy requirement of each route is considered, and the path with minimum energy requirements is selected. Similarly, end-to-end delay, higher throughput, and packet-delivery ratio are considered for packet routing.

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energy-efficient routinghealthcare monitoringmultipath routingwireless body area networks

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PMID36421621
PMCPMC9690694

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