A Survey on Temperature-Aware Routing Protocols in Wireless Body Sensor Networks

作者：Oey Christian Henry Wijaya; Moh Sangman^*

来源：Sensors (Switzerland), 2013, 13(8): 9860-9877.

DOI：10.3390/s130809860

• wireless body sensor network
• routing protocol
• temperature awareness
• bioeffect
• wearable computer

The rapid growth of the elderly population in the world and the rising cost of healthcare impose big issues for healthcare and medical monitoring. A Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) is comprised of small sensor nodes attached inside, on or around a human body, the main purpose of which is to monitor the functions and surroundings of the human body. However, the heat generated by the node%26apos;s circuitry and antenna could cause damage to the human tissue. Therefore, in designing a routing protocol for WBSNs, it is important to reduce the heat by incorporating temperature into the routing metric. The main contribution of this paper is to survey existing temperature-aware routing protocols that have been proposed for WBSNs. In this paper, we present a brief overview of WBSNs, review the existing routing protocols comparatively and discuss challenging open issues in the design of routing protocols.

• 出版日期2013-8