An Energy conserving routing scheme for wireless body sensor nanonetwork communication

Afsana, F, Asif-Ur-Rahman, MD, Ahmed, MR, Mahmud, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2037-8348 and Kaiser, MS, 2018. An Energy conserving routing scheme for wireless body sensor nanonetwork communication. IEEE Access, 6, pp. 9186-9200. ISSN 2169-3536

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Abstract

Current developments in nanotechnology make electromagnetic communication possible at the nanoscale for applications involving body sensor networks (BSNs). This specialized branch of wireless sensor networks, drawing attention from diverse fields, such as engineering, medicine, biology, physics, and computer science, has emerged as an important research area contributing to medical treatment, social welfare, and sports. The concept is based on the interaction of integrated nanoscale machines by means of wireless communications. One key hurdle for advancing nanocommunications is the lack of an apposite networking protocol to address the upcoming needs of the nanonetworks. Recently, some key challenges have been identified, such as nanonodes with extreme energy constraints, limited computational capabilities, terahertz frequency bands with limited transmission range, and so on, in designing protocols for wireless nanosensor networks. This work proposes an improved performance scheme of nanocommunication over terahertz bands for wireless BSNs making it suitable for smart e-health applications. The scheme contains - a new energy-efficient forwarding routine for electromagnetic communication in wireless nanonetworks consisting of hybrid clusters with centralized scheduling; a model designed for channel behavior taking into account the aggregated impact of molecular absorption, spreading loss, and shadowing; and an energy model for energy harvesting and consumption. The outage probability is derived for both single and multilinks and extended to determine the outage capacity. The outage probability for a multilink is derived using a cooperative fusion technique at a predefined fusion node. Simulated using a nano-sim simulator, performance of the proposed model has been evaluated for energy efficiency, outage capacity, and outage probability. The results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed scheme through maximized energy utilization in both single and multihop communications; multisensor fusion at the fusion node enhances the link quality of the transmission.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	IEEE Access
Creators:	Afsana, F., Asif-Ur-Rahman, M.D., Ahmed, M.R., Mahmud, M. and Kaiser, M.S.
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Date:	2018
Volume:	6
ISSN:	2169-3536
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1109/access.2018.2789437 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	23 Jul 2018 10:00
Last Modified:	23 Jul 2018 10:00
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/34127

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