Using relay network to increase life time in wireless body area sensor networks

Author

Ehyaie, Aida ; Hashemi, Massoud ; Khadivi, Pejman

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Isfahan Univ. Of Technol., Isfahan, Iran

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Wireless body area sensor networks will revolutionize health care services by remote, continuous and non-invasive monitoring. Body area sensor networks (BASN) should monitor various physiological parameters of a person for a long period of time. Thus, efficient energy usage in sensor nodes is essential in order to provide a long life time for the network. This paper investigates the effect of adding a relay network to the network of body sensors to reduce energy consumption of sensor nodes when transmitting data to the sink.

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; body area networks; health care; patient monitoring; telecommunication network reliability; wireless sensor networks; data transmission; energy consumption; health care services; network lifetime; physiological parameters; relay network; remote continuous noninvasive monitoring; sensor nodes; wireless body area sensor networks; Biomedical monitoring; Biosensors; Body sensor networks; Computerized monitoring; Humans; Relays; Remote monitoring; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks & Workshops, 2009. WoWMoM 2009. IEEE International Symposium on a

Conference_Location

Kos

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4440-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4439-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WOWMOM.2009.5282405

Filename

5282405