Javed Mohsin, Ahmed Ghufran, Mahmood Danish, Raza Mohsin, Ali Kamran, Ur-Rehman Masood
Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Karachi Campus, Karachi 75190, Pakistan.
Sensors (Basel). 2019 Jul 25;19(15):3275. doi: 10.3390/s19153275.
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are in the spotlight of researchers and engineering industries due to many applications. Remote health monitoring for general as well as military purposes where tiny sensors are attached or implanted inside the skin of the body to sense the required attribute is particularly prominent. To seamlessly accomplish this procedure, there are various challenges, out of which temperature control to reduce thermal effects and optimum power consumption to reduce energy wastage are placed at the highest priority. Regular and consistent operation of a sensor node for a long-time result in a rising of the temperature of respective tissues, where it is attached or implanted. This temperature rise has harmful effects on human tissues, which may lead to the tissue damage. In this paper, a Temperate Aware and Energy Optimized (TAEO) routing protocol is proposed that not only deals with the thermal aspects and hot spot problem, but also extends the stability and lifetime of a network. Analytical simulations are conducted, and the results depict better performance in terms of the network lifetime, throughput, energy preservation, and temperature control with respect to state of the art WBAN protocols.
无线体域网（WBANs）因其众多应用而成为研究人员和工程行业关注的焦点。用于一般和军事目的的远程健康监测尤为突出，在这种监测中，微小的传感器附着或植入人体皮肤内以感知所需属性。为了无缝完成这一过程，存在各种挑战，其中将降低热效应的温度控制和减少能量浪费的最佳功耗置于最高优先级。传感器节点长时间的定期和持续运行会导致其附着或植入部位的相应组织温度升高。这种温度升高对人体组织有有害影响，可能导致组织损伤。本文提出了一种温度感知与能量优化（TAEO）路由协议，该协议不仅能处理热方面和热点问题，还能延长网络的稳定性和寿命。进行了分析模拟，结果表明，相对于现有技术的WBAN协议，该协议在网络寿命、吞吐量、能量保存和温度控制方面具有更好的性能。
