TY - JOUR
T1 - Energy-aware peering routing protocol for indoor hospital body area network communication
AU - Khan, Zahoor
AU - Aslam, Nauman
AU - Sivakumar, Shyamala
AU - Phillips, William
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The recent research in Body Area Networks (BAN) is focused on making its communication more reliable, energy efficient, secure, and to better utilize system resources. In this paper we propose a novel BAN network architecture for indoor hospital environments, and a new mechanism of peer discovery with routing table construction that helps to reduce network traffic load, energy consumption, and improves BAN reliability. We have performed extensive simulations in the Castalia simulation environment to show that our proposed protocol has better performance in terms of reduced BAN traffic load, increased number of successful packets received by nodes, reduced number of packets forwarded by intermediate nodes, and overall lower energy consumption compared to other protocols.
AB - The recent research in Body Area Networks (BAN) is focused on making its communication more reliable, energy efficient, secure, and to better utilize system resources. In this paper we propose a novel BAN network architecture for indoor hospital environments, and a new mechanism of peer discovery with routing table construction that helps to reduce network traffic load, energy consumption, and improves BAN reliability. We have performed extensive simulations in the Castalia simulation environment to show that our proposed protocol has better performance in terms of reduced BAN traffic load, increased number of successful packets received by nodes, reduced number of packets forwarded by intermediate nodes, and overall lower energy consumption compared to other protocols.
KW - body area network
KW - energy-aware peering routing protocol
KW - hospital BAN communication
KW - Peering framework
U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2012.06.027
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2012.06.027
M3 - Article
VL - 10
SP - 188
EP - 196
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
SN - 1877-0509
ER -