Elderly care and health monitoring using smart healthcare technology: An improved routing scheme for wireless body area networks
Abstract Hypertensive patients need regular checkups and constant monitoring for taking time critical decisions by the medical experts. Unfortunately, it is hard to maintain uninterrupted patient health surveillance due to limited medical staff resulting in an increasing mortality rate annually. Tha...
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| description | Abstract Hypertensive patients need regular checkups and constant monitoring for taking time critical decisions by the medical experts. Unfortunately, it is hard to maintain uninterrupted patient health surveillance due to limited medical staff resulting in an increasing mortality rate annually. Thanks to recent developments in wireless sensor networking, we can monitor constantly and efficiently diverse parameters of a network. Similarly, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have become a well‐known sub‐branch of Wireless Sensor Networks. Such sensor networks can be leveraged for patient health monitoring, minimising the medical staff workload. Wireless Body Area Networks require tiny sensor nodes with limited battery power. Therefore, it is always desirable to design effective routing schemes that can enhance network lifetime, and reduce packet drop ratio. In this paper, we re‐simulate and explain in detail the results of a selected published journal article for WBANs and provide some modifications to improve the network's overall performance. Based on these amendments, the modified protocol successfully extends the operational time of the network than the original. Our performance evaluation parameters are dead nodes, throughput, residual energy, and path loss versus the number of rounds. These analyses support effective solutions that improve network performance and data delivery ratio. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-64e00a5f4652475ab1362047e85cd40c2025-08-20T02:40:00ZengWileyIET Wireless Sensor Systems2043-63862043-63942024-12-0114648449210.1049/wss2.12097Elderly care and health monitoring using smart healthcare technology: An improved routing scheme for wireless body area networksMuhammad Hassan0Tom Kelsey1Bilal Mohammad Khan2School of Computer Science University of St. Andrews St. Andrews UKSchool of Computer Science University of St. Andrews St. Andrews UKSchool of Electronic and Power Engineering National University of Sciences and Technology Karachi PakistanAbstract Hypertensive patients need regular checkups and constant monitoring for taking time critical decisions by the medical experts. Unfortunately, it is hard to maintain uninterrupted patient health surveillance due to limited medical staff resulting in an increasing mortality rate annually. Thanks to recent developments in wireless sensor networking, we can monitor constantly and efficiently diverse parameters of a network. Similarly, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have become a well‐known sub‐branch of Wireless Sensor Networks. Such sensor networks can be leveraged for patient health monitoring, minimising the medical staff workload. Wireless Body Area Networks require tiny sensor nodes with limited battery power. Therefore, it is always desirable to design effective routing schemes that can enhance network lifetime, and reduce packet drop ratio. In this paper, we re‐simulate and explain in detail the results of a selected published journal article for WBANs and provide some modifications to improve the network's overall performance. Based on these amendments, the modified protocol successfully extends the operational time of the network than the original. Our performance evaluation parameters are dead nodes, throughput, residual energy, and path loss versus the number of rounds. These analyses support effective solutions that improve network performance and data delivery ratio.https://doi.org/10.1049/wss2.12097radio transceiverssensor placementsensorstelecommunication network routingtelemedicinetime division multiple access |
| spellingShingle | Muhammad Hassan Tom Kelsey Bilal Mohammad Khan Elderly care and health monitoring using smart healthcare technology: An improved routing scheme for wireless body area networks IET Wireless Sensor Systems radio transceivers sensor placement sensors telecommunication network routing telemedicine time division multiple access |
| title | Elderly care and health monitoring using smart healthcare technology: An improved routing scheme for wireless body area networks |
| title_full | Elderly care and health monitoring using smart healthcare technology: An improved routing scheme for wireless body area networks |
| title_fullStr | Elderly care and health monitoring using smart healthcare technology: An improved routing scheme for wireless body area networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Elderly care and health monitoring using smart healthcare technology: An improved routing scheme for wireless body area networks |
| title_short | Elderly care and health monitoring using smart healthcare technology: An improved routing scheme for wireless body area networks |
| title_sort | elderly care and health monitoring using smart healthcare technology an improved routing scheme for wireless body area networks |
| topic | radio transceivers sensor placement sensors telecommunication network routing telemedicine time division multiple access |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1049/wss2.12097 |
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