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RK-Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks

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Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks are related to the monitoring of human physiological parameters. In these small sized machines called sensors are used to observe the physiological parameters. They are small in size which makes them easy to carry around but on the same time they have a serious problem that they can carry with them a very small sized battery. The sensors deplete their energy while sensing the parameter, communication of the sensed data to the base station and also in processing of the observed data. The sensors cannot be charged on regular intervals because they are attached to human body and charging them may not be an easy option. In this paper an energy efficient routing protocol is presented which uses sensors in WBASN to observe parameter in much efficient way. The concept of multi hopping has been utilized with forwarder node. Forwarder node accepts data from sensor nodes which are far from the sink. After accepting data the forwarder node forwards this data to the sink node. This scheme is compared with an existing scheme with which it has been compared in terms of four parameters which are residual energy, network stability and life time, throughput and path loss.

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  1. Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, 76080, Sindh, Pakistan

    Rahat Ali Khan & Nabiha Roshan

  2. Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

    Qin Xin

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Khan, R.A., Xin, Q. & Roshan, N. RK-Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 116, 709–721 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07734-z

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