Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is an innovative mean of amalgamating medical devices and their applications to connect with the healthcare information technology systems by using networking technologies. We have explored the possibilities of confronting the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic by implementing the IoMT approach while offering treatment to orthopaedic patients. The data sharing, report monitoring, patients tracking, information gathering and analysis, hygiene medical care, etc. are the various cloud and connected network-based services of IoMT. It can completely change the working layout of the healthcare facilities while treating orthopaedic patients with a superior level of care and more satisfaction, especially during this pandemic COVID-19 lockdown. Remote-location healthcare has also become feasible with the proposed IoMT approach.

The new global predicament situation has raised questions on our healthcare systems and its endurance to deliver quality medical services. It is for those tormented with COVID-19 and other patients suffering from other chronic, acute, trauma, and other communicable diseases while shielding the doctors, nurses, and other associated medical employees when treating the patients. The immense adaptation to sensors networks demonstrates its usefulness as a tool for the present so-called social distancing in the clinical monitoring of COVID-19 patients or other settings. The utilization of Wireless Medical Sensor Network (WMSN) upsurges the prominence for those who work for long hours treating COVID-19 patients, exposing themselves while risking their lives. This paper attempts to explore few good practices identified from the current pandemic, with a precise and robust vision of deploying sensor networks to accomplish quality healthcare while reducing the potential threat of COVID-19 transmission to general masses while treating others.

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Abstract-Nature-inspired routing protocols are becoming an active area of research. Researchers in the community follow a well known engineering philosophy: inspire, abstract, design, develop and validate. As a consequence, the protocols are designed on the basis of heuristics and then their performance is evaluated in a network simulator. To the best of our knowledge, virtually no attention has been paid in developing a formal framework that provides an analytical insight into the behavior and performance of such algorithms. The lack of formal treatment of Nature-inspired routing protocols is often criticized in the networking community. In this paper we propose a formal framework that helps in analyzing a Nature-inspired routing protocol, BeeHive. We have verified the correctness of our model by comparing its estimated values with the results obtained from extensive network simulations. An important outcome of the work is that the estimated and measured values only differ by a small deviation. We believe that this work will be instrumental for Nature-inspired Telecommunications.

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