scholarly journals Towards a Secure Thermal-Energy Aware Routing Protocol in Wireless Body Area Network Based on Blockchain Technology

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 3604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeinab Shahbazi ◽  
Yung-Cheol Byun
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Thermal Energy ◽  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Temperature Rise ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Energy Aware Routing

The emergence of biomedical sensor devices, wireless communication, and innovation in other technologies for healthcare applications result in the evolution of a new area of research that is termed as Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). WBAN originates from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which are used for implementing many healthcare systems integrated with networks and wireless devices to ensure remote healthcare monitoring. WBAN is a network of wearable devices implanted in or on the human body. The main aim of WBAN is to collect the human vital signs/physiological data (like ECG, body temperature, EMG, glucose level, etc.) round-the-clock from patients that demand secure, optimal and efficient routing techniques. The efficient, secure, and reliable designing of routing protocol is a difficult task in WBAN due to its diverse characteristic and restraints, such as energy consumption and temperature-rise of implanted sensors. The two significant constraints, overheating of nodes and energy efficiency must be taken into account while designing a reliable blockchain-enabled WBAN routing protocol. The purpose of this study is to achieve stability and efficiency in the routing of WBAN through managing temperature and energy limitations. Moreover, the blockchain provides security, transparency, and lightweight solution for the interoperability of physiological data with other medical personnel in the healthcare ecosystem. In this research work, the blockchain-based Adaptive Thermal-/Energy-Aware Routing (ATEAR) protocol for WBAN is proposed. Temperature rise, energy consumption, and throughput are the evaluation metrics considered to analyze the performance of ATEAR for data transmission. In contrast, transaction throughput, latency, and resource utilization are used to investigate the outcome of the blockchain system. Hyperledger Caliper, a benchmarking tool, is used to evaluate the performance of the blockchain system in terms of CPU utilization, memory, and memory utilization. The results show that by preserving residual energy and avoiding overheated nodes as forwarders, high throughput is achieved with the ultimate increase of the network lifetime. Castalia, a simulation tool, is used to evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol, and its comparison is made with Multipath Ring Routing Protocol (MRRP), thermal-aware routing algorithm (TARA), and Shortest-Hop (SHR). Evaluation results illustrate that the proposed protocol performs significantly better in balancing of temperature (to avoid damaging heat effect on the body tissues) and energy consumption (to prevent the replacement of battery and to increase the embedded sensor node life) with efficient data transmission achieving a high throughput value.

scholarly journals Fuzzy Control-Based Energy-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Xintong Wang ◽  
Guoqiang Zheng ◽  
Huahong Ma ◽  
Weiwei Bai ◽  
Honghai Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Control ◽  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Medical Monitoring ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Battery Capacity ◽  
Energy Aware Routing

Advances in medical and communication technologies have empowered the development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). WBANs interconnect with miniature sensors placed on the human body to enable medical monitoring of patient health. However, the limited battery capacity, delay, and reliability of data transmission have brought challenges to the wider application of WBAN. Minimum consumption of energy and maximum satisfaction with the QoS requirements are essential design aims of the WBAN schemes. Therefore, a fuzzy control-based energy-aware routing protocol (EARP) is proposed in this paper, the proposed protocol establishes a fuzzy control model composed of remaining node energy and link quality, and the best forwarder node is determined by the processes of fuzzification, fuzzy inference, and defuzzification. The simulation results showed that compared with the performance of the existing EERDT and M-TSIMPLE protocols, the proposed EARP has better performance, including extending network lifetime and improving the reliability of data transmission.

scholarly journals An Enhanced Heterogeneous Gateway-Based Energy-Aware Multi-hop Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuseini Jibreel ◽  
Emmanuel Tuyishimire ◽  
I M Daabo
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Routing Scheme

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) continue to provide essential services for various applications such as surveillance, data gathering, and data transmission from the hazardous environments to safer destinations. This has been enhanced by the energy-efficient routing protocols that are mostly designed for such purposes. Gateway-based Energy-Aware Multi-hop Routing protocol (MGEAR) is one of the homogenous routing schemes that was recently designed to more efficiently reduce the energy consumption of distant nodes. However, it has been found that the protocol has a high energy consumption rate, lower stability period, less data transmission to the Base station (BS). In this paper, an enhanced Heterogeneous Gateway-based Energy-Aware multi-hop routing protocol ( HMGEAR) is proposed. The proposed routing scheme is based on the introduction of heterogeneous nodes in the existing scheme, selection of the head based on the residual energy, introduction of multi-hop communication strategy in all the regions of the network, and implementation of energy hole elimination technique. Results show that the proposed routing scheme outperforms two existing ones.

scholarly journals E-PAP: Enhanced Priority Aware Protocol for Reliable Communication in Wireless Body Area Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 340-343
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a collection of miniaturized sensing nodes and coordinator nodes. These sensing nodes are placed in, on and around the body for uninterrupted monitoring of physiological data for medical applications. The main application carrier of WBAN is the human body and due to human body movement and physiological changes, the WBAN traffic fluctuates greatly. This network traffic fluctuation requires good network adaptability. In addition to traffic fluctuations, energy consumption is another key problem with WBANs as sensing nodes are very small in size. This paper design a reliable protocol by extending the MAC protocol for reducing energy consumption, PAP algorithm to decide data transmission rate and JOAR algorithm to select the optimize path for the data transmission. The performance of the algorithm outperforms other state of art algorithms to shows its significance.

Small-GEAR in the Specific Scenarios of Small Network

2013 ◽  
Vol 475-476 ◽  
pp. 936-944
Author(s):  
Xun Wang ◽  
Ling Hua Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Residual Energy ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Hop Count ◽  
Energy Aware Routing ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Entire Network

GEAR is an important geographic and energy aware routing protocol in wireless sensor network. As the GEAR is short of enough topology knowledge and the nodes energy is limited, routing void and routing loop will be arisen. This paper presents a smart energy aware routing protocol based on the geographic (SGEAR), which is suitable for the specific scenarios of small network. In the specific scenarios of small network, there are three major nodes to concentrate on, (1) the selected (2) the void (3) the residual energy is less than threshold. The SGEAR modifies the cost functions based on the residual energy, escaping the routing loop caused by the broadcast delay. From the simulations, the conclusions can be drawn that the smaller hop count doesnt indicate the less energy consumption, and SGEAR can reduce the void number, reducing the energy consumption of the entire network, which further prolongs the life of the network to satisfy the need of the specific scenarios of small network.

scholarly journals EARPC – Energy Aware Routing Protocol for Cooperative MIMO Scheme in WSNs

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
Kummathi Chenna Reddy ◽  
Geetha D. Devanagavi ◽  
Thippeswamy M. N.
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Network Lifetime ◽  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Energy Levels ◽  
Routing Algorithm ◽  
Cluster Head ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Energy Efficient Routing ◽  
Energy Aware Routing

Wireless sensor networks are typically operated on batteries. Therefore, in order to prolong network lifetime, an energy efficient routing algorithm is required. In this paper, an energy-aware routing protocol for the co-operative MIMO scheme in WSNs (EARPC) is presented. It is based on an improved cluster head selection method that considers the remaining energy level of a node and recent energy consumption of all nodes. This means that sensor nodes with lower energy levels are less likely to be chosen as cluster heads. Next, based on the cooperative node selection in each cluster, a virtual MIMO array is created, reducing uneven distribution of clusters. Simulation results show that the proposed routing protocol may reduce energy consumption and improve network lifetime compared with the LEACH protocol

scholarly journals Priority Based Data Transmission for WBAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 3671
Author(s):  
Jay Manalastas Ventura ◽  
Arnel Fajardo ◽  
Ruji Medina
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Network ◽  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
End To End Delay ◽  
End To End ◽  
Qos Metrics

<span>Wireless Body Area Sensor Network (WBASN) or Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a growing field in healthcare applications. It enables remote monitoring of patient’s physiological data through wireless communication. It is composed of sensor network which collects physiological data from the patient. There are several issues concerning WBAN such as security, power, routing protocol to address QoS metrics (reliability, end-to-end delay, and energy efficiency), etc. The focus of the study is the issue on different QoS metrics. There were several QoS aware routing protocol that has been proposed which implements multiple queues for different types of data. However, one issue on multiple queue system is starvation, end-to-end delay, and reliability. The study proposed an efficient priority queue based data transmission that improves the end-to-end delay, reliability, and queuing delay of QoS aware routing protocol.</span>

scholarly journals Thermal and energy aware routing in wireless body area networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 155014771985497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghufran Ahmed ◽  
Danish Mahmood ◽  
Saiful Islam
Keyword(s):  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Heat Dissipation ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Network Routing ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Internet Of Medical Things ◽  
Energy Aware Routing

Unlike many other Internet of Things applications, in addition to the limited power of Internet of Medical Things devices, the safety aspect and reliability are the major concerns while designing wireless body area network routing solutions. In fact, the heat dissipation from Internet of Medical Things devices and changes in body posture cause tissue damage and frequent wireless links breakage, respectively. Hence, designing an efficient routing solution is extremely challenging in wireless body area network. Considering the safety aspects of human body, the power constraint of Internet of Medical Things devices, and topological variations in wireless body area network environment, this article presents a thermal-aware, energy-efficient, and reliable routing protocol named thermal and energy aware routing. In the given perspective, thermal and energy aware routing considers the weighted average of three costs while selecting the routing path: energy consumption, heat dissipation, and link quality (between communicating nodes). The proposed protocol is validated by a comparison with a state-of-the-art wireless body area network routing protocol. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed protocol is efficient in terms of energy consumption, thermal impact, and packet reception rate.

scholarly journals An Energy-Aware Routing Protocol for Query-Based Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehsan Ahvar ◽  
Shohreh Ahvar ◽  
Gyu Myoung Lee ◽  
Noel Crespi
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Learning Automata ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Energy Balancing ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Total Energy Consumption ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Energy Aware Routing

Wireless sensor network (WSN) typically has energy consumption restriction. Designing energy-aware routing protocol can significantly reduce energy consumption in WSNs. Energy-aware routing protocols can be classified into two categories, energy savers and energy balancers. Energy saving protocols are used to minimize the overall energy consumed by a WSN, while energy balancing protocols attempt to efficiently distribute the consumption of energy throughout the network. In general terms, energy saving protocols are not necessarily good at balancing energy consumption and energy balancing protocols are not always good at reducing energy consumption. In this paper, we propose an energy-aware routing protocol (ERP) for query-based applications in WSNs, which offers a good trade-off between traditional energy balancing and energy saving objectives and supports a soft real time packet delivery. This is achieved by means of fuzzy sets and learning automata techniques along with zonal broadcasting to decrease total energy consumption.

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