Optimized Energy Efficient and QoS Aware Routing Protocol for WBAN

摘要

The expansion of an average lifetime and increased cost of health analysis have resultedin effective methods for healthcare monitoring. A Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is usedfor continuous monitoring of patients to enhance health care and quality of life. As the sensorsworn on the human body have a small size, low transmission power and restricted battery, whichnecessitate the development of energy-efficient routing protocols for increasing the network lifetime.This paper proposes an Optimized Energy Efficient and Quality-of-Service aware RoutingProtocol (OEEQR) to achieve longer network lifetime, energy efficiency, lower delay and highthroughput. In the proposed protocol, the cost function with residual energy, distance and path lossas its parameters is optimized using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique. The proposedcost function determines the best feasible next hop to send the data to the sink.