ZEQoS: A New Energy and QoS-Aware Routing Protocol for Communication                     of Sensor Devices in Healthcare System

Khan, Zahoor Ali; Sivakumar, S.; Phillips, William J.; Robertson, Bill

doi:10.1155/2014/627689

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“…In a subsequent study [40], the same authors improved the QPRR protocol by adding a delay module and implementing an enhanced version of the protocol referred as ZEQoS, which integrates energy and QoS-aware modules. The targeted application of the new protocol is the hospital indoor service and the WBAN sensor data is classified into : ordinary packets (OPs), delay-sensitive packets (DSPs) and reliability-sensitive packets (RSPs).…”

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Moving Towards Body-to-Body Sensor Networks for Ubiquitous Applications: A Survey

Meharouech

Elias

Mehaoua

2019

JSAN

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Thanks to their arising abilities to influence the human lifestyle, along with reducing the healthcare systems’ cost, wireless body area networks (WBANs) still form a strongly growing research field. Recent advances focus on the opportunities of coexistence and communication between a group of WBANs, that will forward the sensing data, using persons as network relays, until reaching a remote analysis server or cloud servers via the Internet, forming thus a body-to-body network (BBN). Such new-style networks support a range of innovative and promising applications, including ubiquitous healthcare (U-health), interactive games, and military, to cite a few. In this paper, we first present the evolution of the single WBAN concept to the cooperative network of multiple WBANs, giving rise to the BBN concept. A synopsis of the WBAN and BBN respective standards and applications is given, and the emerging BBN challenges are highlighted. Then, we present and discuss the existing WBAN proposals, especially the candidate WBAN protocols that could be adapted and used in BBNs, focusing on four intrinsically related axes of great importance for BBN design: energy efficiency, mobility prediction, quality of service (QoS) and security. Further BBN open issues are also investigated, namely, the wireless propagation between humans carrying wearable devices, the interference, storage and privacy issues as well as the heterogeneity of BBN devices and traffic.

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Section: Qos-aware Traffic Management For Bbnmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…EAAODV [49] SIMPLE [51] EERS [53] M-ATTEMPT [50] EAWD [55] CLDO [56] AAT [57] MoBAN [71] McMAC [63] LRPD [61] QPRR [59] ZEQoS [40] RACOON [65] PSR [68] MHRP [69] MTR [72] CCS [73] MobiHealth [79] Hybrid Security Mechanism [74] Cluster-based sec. mechanism [75] 4.1.…”

Section: Energy-eff Reliability Qos Mobility Security Intra-wban Intmentioning

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Moving Towards Body-to-Body Sensor Networks for Ubiquitous Applications: A Survey

Meharouech

Elias

Mehaoua

2019

JSAN

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“…If the temperature level of a BMS is less than specified threshold values and energy is not enough for transmitting data, in this situation, the transmitter BMS updates the routing table and selects another sensor for path selection [41]. Examples in the cross-layers are DMQoS [10], framework of QoS-aware routing protocol [42,43]. However, this process needs higher time for selecting the path which is not acceptable for life threatening vital signs and BMSs high amount of energy.…”

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“…Energy and QoS-aware based ZEQoS [43] routing protocol is proposed and compared with LOCALMORE [64] and DMQoS [10] in terms of categorization of patient data, reliable data transmission, and energy consumption. The energy consumption of the proposed protocol is high but as compared with EPR, QPRD and QPRR protocols are very low.…”

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“…These parameters help in increasing throughput of the network. The proposed framework comprises MAC layer and routing layer modules [43]. The module of MAC layer contains MAC Receiver, Reliability Module, Delay Module, and MAC Transmitter while network layer module contains packet classifier, hello packet, and routing service module.…”

Section: Journal Of Computer Network and Communicationsmentioning

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Patient Data Prioritization in the Cross-Layer Designs of Wireless Body Area Network

Ullah

Abdullah

Jan

et al. 2015

Journal of Computer Networks and Communications

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In Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), various biomedical sensors (BMSs) are deployed to monitor various vital signs of a patient for detecting the abnormality of the vital signs. These BMSs inform the medical staff in advance before the patient’s life goes into a threatening situation. In WBAN, routing layer has the same challenges as generally seen in WSN, but the unique requirements of WBANs need to be addressed by the novel routing mechanisms quite differently from the routing mechanism in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The slots allocation to emergency and nonemergency patient’s data is one of the challenging issues in IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.15.6 MAC Superframe structures. In the similar way, IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.15.6 PHY layers have also unique constraints to modulate the various vital signs of patient data into continuous and discrete forms. Numerous research contributions have been made for addressing these issues of the aforementioned three layers in WBAN. Therefore, this paper presents a cross-layer design structure of WBAN with various issues and challenges. Moreover, it also presents a detail review of the existing cross-layer protocols in the WBAN domain by discussing their strengths and weaknesses.

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Dissecting wireless body area networks routing protocols: Classification, comparative analysis, and research challenges

Narwal,

Malik,

Mohapatra

et al. 2023

Int J Communication

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SummaryIn the present scenario, wireless body area network (WBAN) use case has gone beyond medical monitoring (e.g., E‐Healthcare) and has become a vital part of our daily lives. WBANs, applied in E‐Healthcare systems, extract the physiological parameters through the implanted (in‐body) and/or wearable (on‐body) sensors applied to the human body and route them to the remote server in a systematized and well‐grounded manner. Thus, routing is the most primitive and non‐trivial task in WBANs for prompt and proper delivery of sensed data. The design of routing protocol is crucial for efficacious communication and high network performance. Therefore, the target of this paper is to present an all‐encompassing taxonomy of the state‐of‐the‐art routing protocols in WBANs. Firstly, this paper provides an insight into WBANs and their related projects. Next, WBAN routing challenges are explored, and after clustering these challenges based on their operating mechanism, the routing protocols are categorized into eight categories, which correspond to cluster‐ and tree‐based, cross‐layer‐based, fuzzy‐based, interference‐based, posture‐based, QoS‐based, SDN‐based, and temperature‐based routing protocols. Furthermore, comparison tables highlighting the goals, strengths, limitations, and novelty of each protocol, along with a qualitative comparison table of the routing protocols for each category based on their features are furnished. This exhaustive survey can serve as a starting point for WBAN researchers, as open research issues have been highlighted in the discussion section.

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ZEQoS: A New Energy and QoS-Aware Routing Protocol for Communication of Sensor Devices in Healthcare System

Cited by 41 publications

References 25 publications

Moving Towards Body-to-Body Sensor Networks for Ubiquitous Applications: A Survey

Moving Towards Body-to-Body Sensor Networks for Ubiquitous Applications: A Survey

Patient Data Prioritization in the Cross-Layer Designs of Wireless Body Area Network

Dissecting wireless body area networks routing protocols: Classification, comparative analysis, and research challenges

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