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A Cross-Layer Opportunistic MAC/routing Protocol to improve reliability in WBAN

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a modern technology having a wide-range of applications. Reliability is a key performance index for WBANs, especially for medical applications. An unreliable WBAN may severely affect the patient under observation. Main causes of unreliability are inefficient rout...

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Main Authors: Abbasi, U.F., Awang, A., Hamid, N.H.
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Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2015
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spelling my.utp.eprints.262292021-08-30T08:55:02Z A Cross-Layer Opportunistic MAC/routing Protocol to improve reliability in WBAN Abbasi, U.F. Awang, A. Hamid, N.H. Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a modern technology having a wide-range of applications. Reliability is a key performance index for WBANs, especially for medical applications. An unreliable WBAN may severely affect the patient under observation. Main causes of unreliability are inefficient routing, low transmission range, body shadowing and environmental interference. We propose a Cross-Layer Opportunistic MAC/Routing (COMR) protocol that can improve the reliability by using a timer based approach for the relay selection mechanism. The value of this timer depends on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) and residual energy. The selected relay node will have the highest residual energy and will be closest to the sink as compared to other possible relay nodes. We evaluate the performance of the proposed mechanism in terms of network lifetime, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), End-To-End (ETE) delay, and energy used per bit. Results depict that COMR protocol shows improvement in terms of reliability, energy efficiency, ETE delay and network lifetime in a WBAN as compared to Simple Opportunistic Routing (SOR). © 2014 IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84929441266&doi=10.1109%2fAPCC.2014.7091601&partnerID=40&md5=984f32a9ba843730759d42fcedd03344 Abbasi, U.F. and Awang, A. and Hamid, N.H. (2015) A Cross-Layer Opportunistic MAC/routing Protocol to improve reliability in WBAN. In: UNSPECIFIED. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/26229/
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description Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a modern technology having a wide-range of applications. Reliability is a key performance index for WBANs, especially for medical applications. An unreliable WBAN may severely affect the patient under observation. Main causes of unreliability are inefficient routing, low transmission range, body shadowing and environmental interference. We propose a Cross-Layer Opportunistic MAC/Routing (COMR) protocol that can improve the reliability by using a timer based approach for the relay selection mechanism. The value of this timer depends on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) and residual energy. The selected relay node will have the highest residual energy and will be closest to the sink as compared to other possible relay nodes. We evaluate the performance of the proposed mechanism in terms of network lifetime, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), End-To-End (ETE) delay, and energy used per bit. Results depict that COMR protocol shows improvement in terms of reliability, energy efficiency, ETE delay and network lifetime in a WBAN as compared to Simple Opportunistic Routing (SOR). © 2014 IEEE.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Abbasi, U.F.
Awang, A.
Hamid, N.H.
spellingShingle Abbasi, U.F.
Awang, A.
Hamid, N.H.
A Cross-Layer Opportunistic MAC/routing Protocol to improve reliability in WBAN
author_facet Abbasi, U.F.
Awang, A.
Hamid, N.H.
author_sort Abbasi, U.F.
title A Cross-Layer Opportunistic MAC/routing Protocol to improve reliability in WBAN
title_short A Cross-Layer Opportunistic MAC/routing Protocol to improve reliability in WBAN
title_full A Cross-Layer Opportunistic MAC/routing Protocol to improve reliability in WBAN
title_fullStr A Cross-Layer Opportunistic MAC/routing Protocol to improve reliability in WBAN
title_full_unstemmed A Cross-Layer Opportunistic MAC/routing Protocol to improve reliability in WBAN
title_sort cross-layer opportunistic mac/routing protocol to improve reliability in wban
publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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