A forwarder based temperature aware routing protocol in wireless body area networks

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Journal of Internet Technology

Publication Date

1-1-2019

Abstract

© 2019 Taiwan Academic Network Management Committee. All rights reserved. A Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) allows the seamless integration of miniaturized sensor nodes in or around a human body, which May cause damage to the surrounding body issue due to high temperature. Although various temperature aware routing protocols have been proposed to prevent temperature rise of sensor nodes, most of them accommodate single traffic transmission with no mobility support. We propose a Forwarder based Temperature Aware Routing Protocol (FTAR) that supports multiple traffic transmission for normal and critical data. Normal data is forwarded directly to the sink through forwarding nodes which are selected among mobile nodes attached to the arms and legs, while critical data is forwarded to the sink through static nodes attached to fixed body parts with no mobility. We conduct extensive simulations of FTAR, and conclude that FTAR has good performance in terms of hot spot generation ratio, hot spot duration time, and packet delivery ratio.

ISSN

1607-9264

Publisher

Taiwan Academic Network Management Committee

Volume

20

Issue

4

First Page

1157

Last Page

1166

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Multiple traffic transmission, Temperature aware routing, Wireless body area networks

Scopus ID

85071730087

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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