Title
Broadcast Strategies in Wireless Body Area Networks
Abstract
The rapid advances in sensors and ultra-low power wireless communication has enabled a new generation of wireless sensor networks: Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). To the best of our knowledge the current paper is the first to address broadcast in WBAN. We first analyze several broadcast strategies inspired from the area of Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN). The proposed strategies are evaluated via the OMNET++ simulator that we enriched with realistic human body mobility models and channel models issued from the recent research on biomedical and health informatics. Contrary to the common expectation, our results show that existing research in DTN cannot be transposed without significant modifications in WBANs area. That is, existing broadcast strategies for DTNs do not perform well with human body mobility. However, our extensive simulations give valuable insights and directions for designing efficient broadcast in WBAN. Furthermore, we propose a novel broadcast strategy that outperforms the existing ones in terms of end-to-end delay, network coverage and energy consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2811587.2811611
International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
7
0.52
References 
Authors
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wafa Badreddine1131.97
Claude Chaudet247034.26
Federico Petruzzi380.87
Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru423125.88