Data Communication in Electromagnetic Nano-networks for Healthcare Applications

Abstract

One of the most promising applications of nanotechnology is their use in health care scenarios to monitor, in real-time, several parameters inside the human body such as cancer biomarker detection, glucose level, etc. However, real-time medical parameters communication is constrained by the tiny size of nano-nodes and their extremely limited energy. Ongoing efforts in this area are in their very early stage of development. Therefore further research is required to propose a suitable communication model. In this paper, we study the deployment of nano-networks in a living biological environment, and we focus on communication protocols challenges that must be overcome. We also proposed a multi-hop data dissemination approach that transmits sensed data from nano-nodes moving inside an artery to an outside controller while optimizing energy consumption.