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An enhanced mobility and temperature aware routing protocol through multi-criteria decision making method in wireless body area networks
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
  • Beom Su Kim, Chungnam National University
  • Babar Shah, Zayed University
  • Feras Al-Obediat, Zayed University
  • Sana Ullah, Gyeongsang National University
  • Kyong Hoon Kim, Gyeongsang National University
  • Ki Il Kim, Chungnam National University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-14-2018
Abstract

© 2018 by the authors. In wireless body area networks, temperature-aware routing plays an important role in preventing damage of surrounding body tissues caused by the temperature rise of the nodes. However, existing temperature-aware routing protocols tend to choose the next hop according to the temperature metric without considering transmission delay and data loss caused by human posture. To address this problem, multiple research efforts exploit different metrics such as temperature, hop count and link quality. Because their approaches are fundamentally based on simple computation through weighted factor for each metric, it is rarely feasible to obtain reasonable weight value through experiments. To solve this problem, we propose an enhanced mobility and temperature-aware routing protocol based on the multi-criteria decision making method. The proposed protocol adopts the analytical hierarchy process and simple additive weighting method to assign suitable weight factors and choose the next hop while considering multiple routing criteria. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate that the proposed protocol can efficiently improve transmission delay and data loss better than existing protocols by preventing the temperature rise on the node.

Publisher
MDPI AG
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP),
  • Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM),
  • Simple additive weighting (SAW),
  • Temperature-aware routing
Scopus ID
85056566429
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
Citation Information
Beom Su Kim, Babar Shah, Feras Al-Obediat, Sana Ullah, et al.. "An enhanced mobility and temperature aware routing protocol through multi-criteria decision making method in wireless body area networks" Applied Sciences (Switzerland) Vol. 8 Iss. 11 (2018) ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2076-3417" target="_blank">2076-3417</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/babar-shah/21/