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Broadcast Strategies in Wireless Body Area Networks

Authors:

Wafa Badreddine,

Claude Chaudet,

Federico Petruzzi,

Maria Potop-ButucaruAuthors Info & Claims

MSWiM '15: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Pages 83 - 90

https://doi.org/10.1145/2811587.2811611

Published: 02 November 2015 Publication History

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.

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DOI:10.1145/2811587

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Baynat BBu GPotop-Butucaru MLi FCoutinho R(2019)Markovian Model for Broadcast in Wireless Body Area NetworksProceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access10.1145/3345770.3356747(63-70)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
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Badreddine WPotop-Butucaru M(2019)Reliable Cross-Layer Protocol for Broadcast in Wireless Body Area NetworksAd-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks10.1007/978-3-030-31831-4_32(469-482)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2019
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Bu GPotop-Butucaru M(2017)Total Order Reliable Convergecast in WBANProceedings of the 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking10.1145/3007748.3007761(1-10)Online publication date: 5-Jan-2017
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