A Multiobjective, Lion Mating Optimization Inspired Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Sensor Network Based Healthcare Applications
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Existing Studies in BASNs
3. Challenges and Research Motivations
- A novel, multiobjective lion mating optimization algorithm is proposed to avoid local search problems during tackling the various objectives in the given problem search space.
- A multiobjective, lion mating optimization based routing mechanism is proposed to provide robust, reliable, and energy-efficient delivery of patient data to the medical data center in dynamic situations, where doctors or autodiagnostic systems can react to abnormal situations.
- Extensive simulation studies are performed using MATLAB 9.5 (R2018b) to validate the performance of the proposed scheme against the existing routing protocols designed for BASN-based health monitoring applications.
4. Proposed SARP Routing Protocol for BASNs
4.1. Network Model and Assumptions
4.2. Bio-Inspired Computing and Optimization Problems
4.2.1. Multiobjective Problems (MOPs)
4.2.2. Multiobjective Lion Mating Optimization Algorithm (MLOA)
4.3. Mapping LMO for BASNs
Algorithm 1: pseudo code for LMO in SARP. |
Input: Generate a random population of Lions, i.e., sensor nodes in a search space Output: Cluster-based routing solution for BASNs. Procedure: Initialize all sensor nodes with the parameters given in Table 3
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4.4. Working Principle of Sensors in SARP
4.4.1. Updating Neighbors with Recent Information
4.4.2. Dynamic Cluster Formation
4.4.3. Packet Forwarding Over a Set of Optimal Biosensors
4.4.4. Route Repair Procedure
5. Path Loss and Energy Consumption Models
6. Performance Analysis
7. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Supplementary File 1Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Sr. No. | Routing Protocols | Static- Channel | Architecture | Packet Delivery Ratio | Delay | Energy Consumption | Packet Error Rate | Throughput | Reliability | Robustness | Convergence |
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1 | Co-LAEEBA [16] | ✓ | Flat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
2 | QPRD [17] | ✓ | Flat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
3 | M-ATTEMPT [18] | ✓ | Flat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
4 | E-OCER [25] | ✓ | Flat | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
5 | ORACE-Net [19] | ✓ | Flat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
6 | TTRP [20] | ✓ | Flat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
7 | OEABC [26] | ✓ | Flat | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
8 | CRPBA [23] | ✓ | Clustering | ✓ | |||||||
9 | REPC [12] | ✓ | Flat | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
10 | ELR-W [21] | ✓ | Flat | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
11 | DSCB [24] | ✓ | Clustering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
12 | Tripe-EEC [2] | ✓ | Flat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
13 | ATAR [22] | ✓ | Flat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
14 | SARP (Proposed) | ✓ | Clustering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Notation | Explanation |
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is the energy consumption subject to minimization by lion . | |
is the delay needing to be minimized by lion . | |
is the packet delivery ratio needing to be increased by lion . | |
is the throughput subject to being increased by lion . | |
, | indicates the lower and upper bounds of the search space, respectively. |
represents the matrix for saving the position of each hunter by considering the position. | |
is the value of the th dimension of the th hunter. | |
is the number of hunters, and is the number of variables. | |
is the current location of the prey. | |
is the new position of the prey. | |
is the current position of the hunter. | |
is the percentage of improvement in the fitness of the hunter. | |
is the network position of the hunter. | |
is a random number whose value is either 0 or 1. | |
is the distance between two lions or between lions and prey in the search space. | |
is the distance between the female lion’s location and the certain point chosen by tournament selection among the pride’s territory. | |
is a vector whose start point is the previous location of the and its direction is toward the selected position , and is perpendicular to , i.e., and . | |
are random vectors with values in [0, 1]. | |
linearly decreases from 2 to 0 over the course of iterations. | |
is a vector that generates random values greater than 1 or less than −1. | |
is a vector that generates random values in [0, 2]. | |
is the number of lions in a pride , which improves their fitness in the last iteration. | |
shows the position of the selected th hunter at the th iteration. | |
is the position of the prey or a hunter in the search space. | |
is the distance between the male lion’s position and the selected area of territory. | |
is the angle to search for a wider area around the current solution in the search space. | |
is a random, uniformly distributed number between and . | |
β | is a randomly generated number with a normal distribution with mean value 0.5 and standard deviation between 0 and 1. |
Xσ | is a shadowing factor in dB, which is a Gaussian-distributed random variable with mean zero and standard deviation σ. |
(r) | is the energy required by the transmit amplifier to maintain an acceptable signal-to-noise ratio to transfer data messages reliably. |
is the path loss exponent, considered as 2 in free space, and varies for different body locations. |
Parameters | Value (s) |
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Channel | Body channel |
Network topology | Deterministic |
Biosensor deployment area | |
Sink location area | |
Initial node energy | 0.5 J |
Initial sink energy | 10 kJ |
Number of biosensor nodes | 25 |
Number of sink nodes | 1 |
Number of female lions | 10 |
Number of male lions | 14 |
Cost of high transmission | 30 nJ/bit |
Cost of low transmission | 23 nJ/bit |
Cost of reception | 7 nJ/bit |
Idle power | 0.90 nJ |
Data aggregation power | 5 nJ/bit/signal |
Signal amplifying power | 10 pJ/bit/ |
High communication range of sensors | 0.5 m |
Low communication range of sensors | 0.3 m |
Transmission range of sink | 1 m |
Line-of-sight (LOS) | 3.38 |
Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) | 5.90 |
Bandwidth | 20 MHz |
Maximum data rate | 151.8 kbps |
Packet size | 3 kb |
Control packet size | 50 bits |
Packet generation rate | 0.01 packets/s |
Memory size | 0.3 MB |
Modulation scheme | DPSK |
Physical layer | IEEE 802.15.6 |
Antenna | Omnidirectional |
Simulation time per epoch | 80 s |
Number of runs | 53 |
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Faheem, M.; Butt, R.A.; Raza, B.; Alquhayz, H.; Abbas, M.Z.; Ngadi, M.A.; Gungor, V.C. A Multiobjective, Lion Mating Optimization Inspired Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Sensor Network Based Healthcare Applications. Sensors 2019, 19, 5072. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19235072
Faheem M, Butt RA, Raza B, Alquhayz H, Abbas MZ, Ngadi MA, Gungor VC. A Multiobjective, Lion Mating Optimization Inspired Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Sensor Network Based Healthcare Applications. Sensors. 2019; 19(23):5072. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19235072
Chicago/Turabian StyleFaheem, Muhammad, Rizwan Aslam Butt, Basit Raza, Hani Alquhayz, Muhammad Zahid Abbas, Md Asri Ngadi, and Vehbi Cagri Gungor. 2019. "A Multiobjective, Lion Mating Optimization Inspired Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Sensor Network Based Healthcare Applications" Sensors 19, no. 23: 5072. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19235072
APA StyleFaheem, M., Butt, R. A., Raza, B., Alquhayz, H., Abbas, M. Z., Ngadi, M. A., & Gungor, V. C. (2019). A Multiobjective, Lion Mating Optimization Inspired Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Sensor Network Based Healthcare Applications. Sensors, 19(23), 5072. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19235072