A priority-based energy efficient multi-hop routing protocol with congestion control for wireless body area network

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are advanced and integrated monitoring networks for healthcare applications. In these networks, different types of Biomedical Sensor Nodes (BSNs) are used to monitor physiological parameters of the human body. The BSNs have limited resources such as energy, memory...

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Main Author: Muhammad Anwar, Muhammad Anwar
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Published: 2019
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spelling my-utm-ep.981022022-11-14T10:02:02Z A priority-based energy efficient multi-hop routing protocol with congestion control for wireless body area network 2019 Muhammad Anwar, Muhammad Anwar QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are advanced and integrated monitoring networks for healthcare applications. In these networks, different types of Biomedical Sensor Nodes (BSNs) are used to monitor physiological parameters of the human body. The BSNs have limited resources such as energy, memory and computation power. These limited resources make the network challenging especially in terms of energy consumption. Efficient routing schemes are required to save the energy during communication processes. Additionally, the BSNs generate sensitive and non-sensitive data packets, which need to be routed according to their priority. In order to address these problems, a priority-based Energy Efficient Multihop Routing protocol with congestion control (3EMR) for wireless body area network was developed that comprises of three different schemes. First, an Optimal Next-hop Selection (ONS) scheme was developed based on the cost function of routing parameters to dynamically select best next-hop for forwarding data packets. Second, a Priority Based Routing (PBR) scheme was developed to forward data packets according to data priority, which is based on sensitivity of the data with regards to patience’s life. Third, a Congestion Avoidance and Mitigation (CAM) scheme was developed to save energy consumption and packet loss due to congestion by considering packet flow adjustment and congestion zone avoidance based strategy. It improvement is benchmarked against related solutions, and they are Healthcare-aware Optimized Congestion Avoidance (HOCA), Differentiated Rate control for Congestion (DRC), Priority based Cross Layer Routing (PCLR), Even Energy-consumption and Backside Routing (EEBR), and Energy Efficient Routing (EER) scheme. The simulation results demonstrated that the 3EMR scheme achieved significant improvement in terms of increased network lifetime by 31.4%, increased throughput by 33.2%, reduced packet loss 30.9%, increased packet delivery ratio by 21.1% and reduced energy consumption 26.8%. Thus, the proposed routing scheme has proven to be an energy efficient solution for data communication in wireless body area networks. 2019 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/98102/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/98102/1/MuhammadAnwarPSC2019.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:143757 phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Engineering - School of Computing Faculty of Engineering - School of Computing
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Computer science
QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
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Computer science
QA75 Electronic computers
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Muhammad Anwar, Muhammad Anwar
A priority-based energy efficient multi-hop routing protocol with congestion control for wireless body area network
description Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are advanced and integrated monitoring networks for healthcare applications. In these networks, different types of Biomedical Sensor Nodes (BSNs) are used to monitor physiological parameters of the human body. The BSNs have limited resources such as energy, memory and computation power. These limited resources make the network challenging especially in terms of energy consumption. Efficient routing schemes are required to save the energy during communication processes. Additionally, the BSNs generate sensitive and non-sensitive data packets, which need to be routed according to their priority. In order to address these problems, a priority-based Energy Efficient Multihop Routing protocol with congestion control (3EMR) for wireless body area network was developed that comprises of three different schemes. First, an Optimal Next-hop Selection (ONS) scheme was developed based on the cost function of routing parameters to dynamically select best next-hop for forwarding data packets. Second, a Priority Based Routing (PBR) scheme was developed to forward data packets according to data priority, which is based on sensitivity of the data with regards to patience’s life. Third, a Congestion Avoidance and Mitigation (CAM) scheme was developed to save energy consumption and packet loss due to congestion by considering packet flow adjustment and congestion zone avoidance based strategy. It improvement is benchmarked against related solutions, and they are Healthcare-aware Optimized Congestion Avoidance (HOCA), Differentiated Rate control for Congestion (DRC), Priority based Cross Layer Routing (PCLR), Even Energy-consumption and Backside Routing (EEBR), and Energy Efficient Routing (EER) scheme. The simulation results demonstrated that the 3EMR scheme achieved significant improvement in terms of increased network lifetime by 31.4%, increased throughput by 33.2%, reduced packet loss 30.9%, increased packet delivery ratio by 21.1% and reduced energy consumption 26.8%. Thus, the proposed routing scheme has proven to be an energy efficient solution for data communication in wireless body area networks.
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qualification_name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
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author Muhammad Anwar, Muhammad Anwar
author_facet Muhammad Anwar, Muhammad Anwar
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title A priority-based energy efficient multi-hop routing protocol with congestion control for wireless body area network
title_short A priority-based energy efficient multi-hop routing protocol with congestion control for wireless body area network
title_full A priority-based energy efficient multi-hop routing protocol with congestion control for wireless body area network
title_fullStr A priority-based energy efficient multi-hop routing protocol with congestion control for wireless body area network
title_full_unstemmed A priority-based energy efficient multi-hop routing protocol with congestion control for wireless body area network
title_sort priority-based energy efficient multi-hop routing protocol with congestion control for wireless body area network
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Engineering - School of Computing
granting_department Faculty of Engineering - School of Computing
publishDate 2019
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/98102/1/MuhammadAnwarPSC2019.pdf
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