Broadcast strategies in Wireless Body Area Networks

Wafa Badreddine; Claude Chaudet; Federico Petruzzi; Maria Potop-Butucaru

Broadcast strategies in Wireless Body Area Networks

Wafa Badreddine ¹ Claude Chaudet ^{2, 3} Federico Petruzzi ¹ Maria Potop-Butucaru ¹

1 NPA - Networks and Performance Analysis

LIP6 - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6

2 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information

3 LINCS - Laboratory of Information, Network and Communication Sciences

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.

Document type :

Conference papers

Domain :

Computer Science [cs] / Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]

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https://hal-imt.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01294254
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Submitted on : Monday, March 28, 2016 - 11:34:45 PM
Last modification on : Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 3:35:42 AM

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