A priority-based congestion-avoidance routing protocol using IoT-based heterogeneous medical sensors for energy efficiency in healthcare wireless body area networks

A wireless body area network is a collection of Internet of Things–based wearable heterogeneous computing devices primarily used in healthcare monitoring applications. A lot of research is in process to reduce the cost and increase efficiency in medical industry. Low power sensor nodes are often att...

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Main Authors: Khalid M Awan, Nadeem Ashraf, Muhammad Qaiser Saleem, Osama E Sheta, Kashif Naseer Qureshi, Asim Zeb, Khalid Haseeb, Ali Safaa Sadiq
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-06-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1550147719853980
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author Khalid M Awan
Nadeem Ashraf
Muhammad Qaiser Saleem
Osama E Sheta
Kashif Naseer Qureshi
Asim Zeb
Khalid Haseeb
Ali Safaa Sadiq
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Nadeem Ashraf
Muhammad Qaiser Saleem
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Ali Safaa Sadiq
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description A wireless body area network is a collection of Internet of Things–based wearable heterogeneous computing devices primarily used in healthcare monitoring applications. A lot of research is in process to reduce the cost and increase efficiency in medical industry. Low power sensor nodes are often attached to high-risk patients for real-time remote monitoring. These sensors have limited resources such as storage capacity, battery life, computational power, and channel bandwidth. The current work proposes a multi-hop Priority-based Congestion-avoidance Routing Protocol using IoT based heterogeneous sensors for energy efficiency in wireless body area networks. The objective is to devise a routing protocol among sensor nodes such that it has minimum delay and higher throughput for emergency packets using IoT based sensor nodes, optimal energy consumption for longer network lifetime, and efficient scarce resource utilization. In our proposed work, data traffic is categorized into normal and emergency or life-critical data. For normal data traffic, next-hop selection will be selected based upon three parameters; residual energy, congestion on forwarder node, and signal-to-noise ratio of the path between source and forwarder node. We use the data aggregation and filtration technique to reduce the network traffic load and energy consumption. A priority-based routing scheme is also proposed for life-critical data to have less delay and greater throughput in emergency situations. Performance of the proposed protocol is evaluated with two cutting-edge routing techniques iM-SIMPLE and Optimized Cost Effective and Energy Efficient Routing. The proposed model outperforms in terms of network throughput, traffic load, energy consumption, and lifespan.
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spelling doaj-art-8bd27a23d36647709fc85db7e364b71c2025-08-20T03:06:50ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772019-06-011510.1177/1550147719853980A priority-based congestion-avoidance routing protocol using IoT-based heterogeneous medical sensors for energy efficiency in healthcare wireless body area networksKhalid M Awan0Nadeem Ashraf1Muhammad Qaiser Saleem2Osama E Sheta3Kashif Naseer Qureshi4Asim Zeb5Khalid Haseeb6Ali Safaa Sadiq7Department of Computer Science COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus PakistanDepartment of Computer Science COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus PakistanCollege of Computer Science and Information Technology, Al Baha University, Al Baha, Saudi ArabiaCollege of Science, Zagazig University, Zagazig, EgyptDepartment of Computer Science, Bahria University, Islamabad, PakistanDepartment of Computer Science, Qurtuba University, Peshawar, PakistanDepartment of Computer Science, Islamia College Peshawar, Peshawar, PakistanSchool of Information Technology, Monash University, Bandar Sunway, MalaysiaA wireless body area network is a collection of Internet of Things–based wearable heterogeneous computing devices primarily used in healthcare monitoring applications. A lot of research is in process to reduce the cost and increase efficiency in medical industry. Low power sensor nodes are often attached to high-risk patients for real-time remote monitoring. These sensors have limited resources such as storage capacity, battery life, computational power, and channel bandwidth. The current work proposes a multi-hop Priority-based Congestion-avoidance Routing Protocol using IoT based heterogeneous sensors for energy efficiency in wireless body area networks. The objective is to devise a routing protocol among sensor nodes such that it has minimum delay and higher throughput for emergency packets using IoT based sensor nodes, optimal energy consumption for longer network lifetime, and efficient scarce resource utilization. In our proposed work, data traffic is categorized into normal and emergency or life-critical data. For normal data traffic, next-hop selection will be selected based upon three parameters; residual energy, congestion on forwarder node, and signal-to-noise ratio of the path between source and forwarder node. We use the data aggregation and filtration technique to reduce the network traffic load and energy consumption. A priority-based routing scheme is also proposed for life-critical data to have less delay and greater throughput in emergency situations. Performance of the proposed protocol is evaluated with two cutting-edge routing techniques iM-SIMPLE and Optimized Cost Effective and Energy Efficient Routing. The proposed model outperforms in terms of network throughput, traffic load, energy consumption, and lifespan.https://doi.org/10.1177/1550147719853980
spellingShingle Khalid M Awan
Nadeem Ashraf
Muhammad Qaiser Saleem
Osama E Sheta
Kashif Naseer Qureshi
Asim Zeb
Khalid Haseeb
Ali Safaa Sadiq
A priority-based congestion-avoidance routing protocol using IoT-based heterogeneous medical sensors for energy efficiency in healthcare wireless body area networks
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
title A priority-based congestion-avoidance routing protocol using IoT-based heterogeneous medical sensors for energy efficiency in healthcare wireless body area networks
title_full A priority-based congestion-avoidance routing protocol using IoT-based heterogeneous medical sensors for energy efficiency in healthcare wireless body area networks
title_fullStr A priority-based congestion-avoidance routing protocol using IoT-based heterogeneous medical sensors for energy efficiency in healthcare wireless body area networks
title_full_unstemmed A priority-based congestion-avoidance routing protocol using IoT-based heterogeneous medical sensors for energy efficiency in healthcare wireless body area networks
title_short A priority-based congestion-avoidance routing protocol using IoT-based heterogeneous medical sensors for energy efficiency in healthcare wireless body area networks
title_sort priority based congestion avoidance routing protocol using iot based heterogeneous medical sensors for energy efficiency in healthcare wireless body area networks
url https://doi.org/10.1177/1550147719853980
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