Temperature Aware Routing Protocol in the field of Wireless Body Sensor Network

Abstract

Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) has come into view as a trending field in the recent years, having major application in the medical field. In this, few sensor nodes are put on or around human body which gathers the data and that data is processed for early detection of diseases where we can start early treatment, data is gathered while surgeries are performed. Based on the criticality of the information, it is very important to have routing protocols which are efficient and can be effectively used to gather the data[2]. In WBSN, one of the major concern is whenever we place sensor nodes on the human body, as they are used to gather the data, the temperature of those sensor node increases due to load and which need to be minimize in an effective way, how the packets need to be send in order to minimize the network load, energy saving mechanisms, efficient and effective packet delivery [3]. These few parameters bring the need of routing protocols into the picture. In this paper, we have critically reviewed all the routing protocols proposed so far which take temperature of the node as a metric, popularly known as Temperature-Aware Routing Protocols. We hope this help readers in their future work.