On Designing Thermal-Aware Localized QoS Routing Protocol for in-vivo Sensor Nodes in Wireless Body Area Networks

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are increasingly employed in different medical applications, such as remote health monitoring, early detection of medical conditions, and computer-assisted rehabilitation. A WBAN connects a number of sensor nodes implanted in and/or fixed on the human body for monitoring his/her physiological characteristics. Although medical healthcare systems could significantly benefit from the advancement of WBAN technology, collecting and transmitting private physiological data in such an open environment raises serious security and privacy concerns. In this paper, we propose a novel key-agreement protocol to secure communications among sensor nodes of WBANs. The proposed protocol is based on measuring and verifying common physiological features at both sender and recipient sensors prior to communicating. Unlike existing protocols, the proposed protocol enables communicating sensors to use their previous session pre-knowledge for secure communication within a specific period of time. This will reduce the time required for establishing the shared key as well as avoid retransmitting extracted features in the medium and hence thwarting eavesdropping attacks while maintaining randomness of the key. Experimental results illustrate the superiority of the proposed key agreement protocol in terms of both feature extraction and key agreement phases with an accuracy of 99.50% and an error rate of 0.005%. The efficacy of the proposed protocol with respect to energy and memory utilization is demonstrated compared with existing key agreement protocols.

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QRP: QPSO Based Routing Protocol for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Body Area Networks

Communications in Computer and Information Science - Computing Science, Communication and Security ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-76776-1_14 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 205-221

Author(s):

Satyam Sharma

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Routing Protocol ◽

Body Area Networks ◽

Wireless Body Area Networks ◽

Body Area

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An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for Reliable Data Transmission in Wireless Body Area Networks

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19194238 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (19) ◽

pp. 4238

Author(s):

Yating Qu ◽

Guoqiang Zheng ◽

Honghai Wu ◽

Baofeng Ji ◽

Huahong Ma

Keyword(s):

Routing Protocol ◽

Data Transmission ◽

Energy Efficient ◽

Body Area Networks ◽

Wireless Body Area Networks ◽

Reliable Data ◽

Body Area ◽

Energy Efficient Routing ◽

Maximum Benefit ◽

Benefit Function

Wireless body area networks will inevitably bring tremendous convenience to human society in future development, and also enable people to benefit from ubiquitous technological services. However, one of the reasons hindering development is the limited energy of the network nodes. Therefore, the energy consumption in the selection of the next hop must be minimized in multi-hop routing. To solve this problem, this paper proposes an energy efficient routing protocol for reliable data transmission in a wireless body area network. The protocol takes multiple parameters of the network node into account, such as residual energy, transmission efficiency, available bandwidth, and the number of hops to the sink. We construct the maximum benefit function to select the next hop node by normalizing the node parameters, and dynamically select the node with the largest function value as the next hop node. Based on the above work, the proposed method can achieve efficient multi-hop routing transmission of data and improve the reliability of network data transmission. Compared with the priority-based energy-efficient routing algorithm (PERA) and modified new-attempt routing protocol (NEW-ATTEMPT), the simulation results show that the proposed routing protocol uses the maximum benefit function to select the next hop node dynamically, which not only improves the reliability of data transmission, but also significantly improves the energy utilization efficiency of the node and prolongs the network lifetime.

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