Body Node Coordinator Placement Algorithms for Wireless Body Area Networks

Body Node Coordinator Placement Algorithms for Wireless Body Area Networks

Abstract— Body Node Coordinator Placement Algorithms for Wireless Body Area Networks. Wireless body area networks < Final Year Projects 2016 > WBANs are intelligent wireless monitoring systems, consisting of wearable, and implantable computing devices on or in the human body. They are used to support a variety of personalized, advanced, and integrated applications in the field of medical, fitness, sports, military, and consumer electronics. In a WBAN, network longevity is a major challenge due to the limitation of the availability of energy supply in body nodes. Therefore, routing protocols can play a key role towards making such networks energy efficient. We exhibit that a routing protocol together with an effective body node coordinator (BNC) deployment strategy can influence the network lifetime eminently. Our initial work shows that the variation in the placement of a BNC within a WBAN could significantly vary the overall network lifetime.