Department of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, 375 Seoseok-dong, Gwangju, Korea.
Sensors (Basel). 2013 Aug 2;13(8):9860-77. doi: 10.3390/s130809860.
The rapid growth of the elderly population in the world and the rising cost of healthcare impose big issues for healthcare and medical monitoring. A Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) is comprised of small sensor nodes attached inside, on or around a human body, the main purpose of which is to monitor the functions and surroundings of the human body. However, the heat generated by the node's circuitry and antenna could cause damage to the human tissue. Therefore, in designing a routing protocol for WBSNs, it is important to reduce the heat by incorporating temperature into the routing metric. The main contribution of this paper is to survey existing temperature-aware routing protocols that have been proposed for WBSNs. In this paper, we present a brief overview of WBSNs, review the existing routing protocols comparatively and discuss challenging open issues in the design of routing protocols.
世界上老年人口的快速增长和不断上升的医疗保健成本给医疗保健和医疗监测带来了重大问题。无线体域网（WBSN）由附着在人体内部、表面或周围的小型传感器节点组成，其主要目的是监测人体的功能和周围环境。然而，节点电路和天线产生的热量可能会对人体组织造成损害。因此，在设计 WBSN 的路由协议时，通过将温度纳入路由度量来降低热量非常重要。本文的主要贡献是调查已经为 WBSN 提出的现有感知温度的路由协议。在本文中，我们简要概述了 WBSN，比较了现有的路由协议，并讨论了路由协议设计中的具有挑战性的开放问题。
