An Energy Efficient Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network of Health Sensors

Author(s)
Geddes, Nathan
Gupta, Gourab Sen
Hasan, Faraz
Publication Date
2024
Abstract
<p>Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are a technology with the potential to greatly improve healthcare services by providing long-term remote health monitoring. However, energy efficient protocol must be designed to maximize the operating lifetime of the energy constrained sensor nodes involved. This paper proposes data classification and aggregation protocol which improve the energy efficiency by reducing the energy required to transmit each data measurement. Compared to existing protocol, it is suitable for a range of sensors operating at different sampling rates and different WBAN configurations as aggregation is performed at the sensor level node level. This work also contributes experimentation of the proposed protocol on developed prototype wireless sensor nodes. Through an energy efficiency analysis based on the IEEE 802.15.6 body area network standard, the protocol has shown the potential to provide significant improvements in energy efficiency.</p>
Citation
Proceedings of the International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2019, p. 1-6
ISBN
9781538634608
9781538634615
ISSN
2642-2077
2642-2069
Link
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Title
An Energy Efficient Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network of Health Sensors
Type of document
Conference Publication
Entity Type
Publication

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