Energy-aware gateway selection for increasing the lifetime of wireless body area sensor networks

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1593-1601

  Bayilmis, Cuneyt ^a   Younis, Mohamed ^b  

^a SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Gateway selection algorithm; Network lifetime; Selective engagement of nodes; Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASN)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GATEWAY SELECTION ALGORITHM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCAL AREA NETWORK; SENSORY GATING; WIDE AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS BODY AREA SENSOR NETWORK;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84864033907     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-010-9620-y     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Hanson, M. A., et al., Body area sensor networks: Challenges and opportunities. IEEE Computer 42(1):58-65, 2009.
2. Cao, H., Leung, V., Chow, C., and Chan, H., Enabling technologies for wireless body area networks: Survey and outlook. IEEE Commun. Mag. 84-92, December 2009.
3. Milenkovic, A., Otto, C., and Jovanov, E., Wireless Sensor Networks for Personal Health Monitoring: Issues and an Implementation. Comput. Commun., Special issue on Wireless Sensor Networks: Performance, Reliability, Security, and Beyond 29:2521-2533, 2006. (Pubitemid 44162982)
4. Zhang, L., and Wu, X., Recent progress in challenges of wireless biomedical sensor network. In the Proceedings of the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (ICBBE 2009). Beijing, China, June 2009.
5. Yuce, M. R., Ng, P. C., and Khan, J. Y., Monitoring of physiological parameters from multiple patients using wireless sensor network. J. Med. Syst. 32(5):433-441, 2008.
6. Reusens, E., et al., Characterization of on-body communication channel and energy efficient topology design for wireless body area networks. IEEE Trans. Inf. Technol. Biomed. 13(6):933-945, 2009.
7. Braem, B., et al., The need for cooperation and relaying in shortrange high path loss sensor networks. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM 2007). Valencia, Spain, October 2007.
8. Ehyaie, A., Hashemi, M., and Khadivi, P., Using relay network to increase life time in wireless body area sensor networks. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks & Workshops (WoWMoM 2009). Kos, Greece, June 2009.
9. Starner, T., and Paradiso, J. A., Human generated power for mobile electronics. In: Piguet, C. (Ed.), Low-Power Electronics Design. CRC Press, Chapter 45, pp. 1-35, 2004.
10. Paradiso, J. A., and Starner, T., Energy scavenging for mobile and wireless electronics. IEEE Pervasive Comput. 4(1):18-27, 2005. (Pubitemid 40495602)
11. Amor, N. B., and Kanoun, O., Investigation to the use of vibration energy for supply of hearing aids. Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference-IMTC, Poland, 2007.
12. Amor, N. B., et al., Energy harvesting from human body for biomedical autonomous systems. In the Proceedings of the IEEE on Sensors (SENSORS 2008), Leece, Italy, October 2008.
13. Stark, I., Thermal energy harvesting with thermo life. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06), 2006.
14. Raju, M., ULP meets energy harvesting: a game-changing combination for design engineers. Texas Instruments, White Paper, November 2008.
15. Omeni, O., Eljamaly, O., and Burdett, J. Energy efficient medium access protocol for wireless body area sensor networks. In the Proceedings of the 4th IEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors. Cambridge, UK, 29-32, 2007.
16. Omeni, O., Wong, A. C. W., Burdett, A. J., and Toumazou, C., Energy efficient medium access protocol for wireless medical body area sensor networks. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Circuits Syst. 2 (2):251-259, 2008.
17. Otal, B., Alonso, L., and Verikoukis, C., Highly reliable energysaving MAC for wireless body sensor networks in healthcare systems. IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. 27(4):553-565, 2009.
18. Ullah, S., and Kwak, K. S., An ultra low-power and trafficadaptive medium access control protocol for wireless body area network. J. Med. Syst. Online First™, 2 August 2010.
19. Ullah, S., et al., A comprehensive survey of wireless body area networks on PHY, MAC, and network layers solutions. J. Med. Syst. Online First™, 18 August 2010.
20. Hoang, D. C., Tan, Y. K., Chng, H. B., Panda, S. K., Thermal energy harvesting from human warmth for wireless body area network in medical healthcare system. In the Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS2009). Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1277-1282, November 2009.
21. Welsh, M., Exposing resource tradeoffs in region-based communication abstractions for sensor networks. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 34(1):119-124, 2004.
22. Shenck, N. S., and Paradiso, J. A., Energy scavenging with shoemounted piezoelectrics. IEEE Micro 21(3):30-42, 2001.
23. Chen, S., Lee, H., Chen, C., Huang, H., and Luo, C., Wireless body sensor network with adaptive low-power design for biometrics and healthcare applications. IEEE Syst. J. 3(4):398-409, 2009.