Revisiting Routing Protocols to Design Energy Aware Wireless Body Area Network

Abstract

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) a special type of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in which sensor nodes to actualize continuous wearable wellbeing observing of patients are able to provide improved healthcare services in a distributed infrastructure less environments. However, the mobile node, due to less battery power, can easily suffer from the problem of energy level when control packets are transfer among nodes—a problem that can occurs by the fact that some sensor nodes may select wrong cluster head with inappropriate path and waste the resources. Although many energy efficient methods have been designed for the traditional sensor networks, there has been limited focus on incorporating WBANs into energy efficient schemes. Therefore, in order to incorporate above issue we revisit the already designed traditional energy efficient methods with cluster head selection protocols and optimal path transformation. Therefore, we encourage researchers to insert WBANs with existing methods to improve performance. However, some work has been done in WBANs that uses energy efficient methods to manage the routing issue, this research domain requires further research attention. Therefore, we discuss the current research work and purpose many future directions of research.