Optimal thermo-QoS-aware routing protocol for WBAN communication

Abstract

Wireless body area network (WBAN) has emerged as a promising solution to address problems such as population aging, a lack of medical facilities, and different chronic ailments. WBANs have real-time applications, and there is an increasing demand for them. However, due to changing network structure, power supply limitations, and constrained computing capacity, energy constraints, it is difficult task to achieve quality of service (QoS). To mitigate these limitations, the paper proposed an optimal thermo-QoS aware routing protocol (OTQRP) for WBAN communication. The result was investigated in terms of temperature rise, energy consumption and delay. The paper shows better energy efficiency with respect to existing works. Finally, OTQRP feature comparison is also presented with recent research in terms of features such as complexity, latency, and energy economy and observed that OTQRP shows best performance as compared to others.