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Special Issue "New Trends in Wireless Body Area Networks"

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Ki-Il Kim
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea
Interests: wireless sensor networks; wireless body area networks; real-time communications; protocol engineering; QoS
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Dr. Shuhui Grace YANG
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Guest Editor
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN 46323, USA
Interests: ad hoc networks; edge computing; big data; security

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advancements in the state-of-the-art technologies in healthcare systems have enabled the development of unobtrusive health monitoring in a cost-effective, interactive, and safe manner. The requirements of such systems include real-time processing, high reliability, fault tolerance, security and privacy, and high quality of service. To meet these requirements and implement advanced healthcare systems, networking technology based on wireless body area networks is essential.

This Special Issue solicits the submission of high-quality unpublished review and research articles that aim at addressing technical issues and challenges associated with wireless body area networks. Submitted papers should emphasize on the development of new protocols and focus on performance evaluation and comparison with existing standards and practices. Both theoretical and experimental studies on practical applications are encouraged.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Network architecture for WBAN;
  • Machine learning for WBAN;
  • Resource allocation algorithms in WBAN
  • WBAN routing and MAC protocols;
  • M2M communication protocols;
  • Security and privacy;
  • Experimental platforms for WBAN;
  • Intra-WBAN and inter-WBAN protocol.

Prof. Dr. Ki Il Kim
Dr. Shuhui Grace YANG
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sensors is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Wireless body area networks
  • Resource management
  • Routing/MAC protocol
  • Security protocol
  • Machine learning for WBAN

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Energy Harvested and Cooperative Enabled Efficient Routing Protocol (EHCRP) for IoT-WBAN
Sensors 2020, 20(21), 6267; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20216267 - 03 Nov 2020
Cited by 5 | Viewed by 1032
Abstract
The health industry is one of the most auspicious domains for the application of Internet of Things (IoT) based technologies. Lots of studies have been carried out in the health industry field to minimize the use of resources and increase the efficiency. The [...] Read more.
The health industry is one of the most auspicious domains for the application of Internet of Things (IoT) based technologies. Lots of studies have been carried out in the health industry field to minimize the use of resources and increase the efficiency. The use of IoT combined with other technologies has brought quality advancement in the health sector at minimum expense. One such technology is the use of wireless body area networks (WBANs), which will help patients incredibly in the future and will make them more productive because there will be no need for staying at home or a hospital for a long time. WBANs and IoT have an integrated future as WBANs, like any IoT application, are a collection of heterogeneous sensor-based devices. For the better amalgamation of the IoT and WBANs, several hindrances blocking their integration need to be addressed. One such problem is the efficient routing of data in limited resource sensor nodes (SNs) in WBANs. To solve this and other problems, such as transmission of duplicate sensed data, limited network lifetime, etc., energy harvested and cooperative-enabled efficient routing protocol (EHCRP) for IoT-WBANs is proposed. The proposed protocol considers multiple parameters of WBANs for efficient routing such as residual energy of SNs, number of hops towards the sink, node congestion levels, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and available network bandwidth. A path cost estimation function is calculated to select forwarder node using these parameters. Due to the efficient use of the path-cost estimation process, the proposed mechanism achieves efficient and effective multi-hop routing of data and improves the reliability and efficiency of data transmission over the network. After extensive simulations, the achieved results of the proposed protocol are compared with state-of-the-art techniques, i.e., E-HARP, EB-MADM, PCRP and EERP. The results show significant improvement in network lifetime, network throughout, and end-to-end delay. Full article
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