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QoS-based routing in Wireless Body Area Networks: a survey and taxonomy

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Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) constitutes a set of sensor nodes responsible for monitoring human physiological activities and actions. The increasing demand for real time applications in such networks stimulates many research activities in quality-of-service (QoS) based routing for data delivery. Designing such scheme of critical events while preserving the energy efficiency is a challenging task due to the dynamic of the network topology, severe constraints on power supply and limited in computation power and communication bandwidth. The design of QoS-based routing protocols becomes an essential part of WBANs and plays an important role in the communication stacks and has significant impact on the network performance. In this paper, we classify, survey, model and compare the most relevant and recent QoS-based routing protocols proposed in the framework of WBAN. A novel taxonomy of solutions is proposed, in which the comparison is performed with respect to relevant criteria. An analytical model is proposed in order to compare the performances of all the solutions. Furthermore, we provide a study of adaptability of the surveyed protocols related to the healthcare sector.

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This work was carried out in the framework of research activities of the laboratory LIMED, which is affiliated to the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the University of Bejaia. It was done in collaboration with the Labex MS2T, which was funded by the French Government, through the program “Investments for the future” managed by the National Agency for Research (Reference ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02).

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique Médicale, Faculté des Sciences Exactes, Université de Bejaia, 06000, Bejaïa, Algeria

    Nawel Yessad, Mawloud Omar & Abdelkamel Tari

  2. Heudiasyc UMR 7253, Sorbonne universités, Université de technologie de Compiegne, CNRS, CS 60 319, 60 203, Compiegne Cedex, France

    Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah

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Yessad, N., Omar, M., Tari, A. et al. QoS-based routing in Wireless Body Area Networks: a survey and taxonomy. Computing 100, 245–275 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-017-0575-4

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