An energy efficient routing protocol in wireless sensor network for health monitoring

Author

Zhang, Weidong ; Wan, Jun ; Yang, Bin ; Zhang, Xiwen

Author_Institution

Nat. Center for Mater. Service Safety, Univ. of Sci. & Technol. Beijing, Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

24-27 June 2012

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

250

Abstract

Wireless monitoring systems are increasingly being used in structural health monitoring for its benefits of good economy and ease of maintenance. However, the energy limited of wireless sensor nodes is a major problem for wireless monitoring systems. In this paper, a low-power routing protocol is proposed for the wireless bridge health monitoring system, and the protocol has a good effect on extending the network lifetime. Simulation results show that the protocol balances the network energy consumption, and extends the network lifetime by 30% or more compared with Leach and GAF.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; health care; patient monitoring; routing protocols; wireless sensor networks; GAF lifetime; Leach lifetime; energy efficient routing protocol; low-power routing protocol; network energy consumption; network lifetime; structural health monitoring; wireless bridge health monitoring system; wireless monitoring systems; wireless sensor network; wireless sensor nodes; Fading; Monitoring; Clustering Routing Protocol; Health Monitoring; Low-power; Selection of Cluster Heads; Wireless Sensor Network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEESYM), 2012 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2363-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEESym.2012.6258636

Filename

6258636