CAMP: Congestion Avoidance and Mitigation Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks

Muhammad Anwar, School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru 81310, Malaysia, Abdul Hanan Abdullah, Rd. Rohmat Saedudin, Farhan Masud, Fasee Ullah, School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru 81310, Malaysia, School of Industrial Engineering, Telkom University, 40257 Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Faculty of Life Sciences Business Management, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani Road, Lahore, Pakistan, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan
2018 International Journal of Integrated Engineering  
Advances in wireless communication technologies invented body sensor networks (BSNs) for health care systems. BSN monitors patients' health remotely and automatically. It is economical and helpful solution for both patients and healthcare providers. BSN is made up of small Bio-medical sensors (BMSs) and Body Coordinator (BC). BMSs sense and transmit data continuously. As BSN consist of many BMSs, the simultaneous data transmission results in congestion in the network. Congestion causes packet
more » ... ops which attempt to be retransmitted again and again. Therefore, the BMSs drain their energy fast and consequently reduce the network lifetime. In this work, a congestion avoidance and mitigation protocol (CAMP) is proposed for BSNs. The experimental results shows that the proposed protocol carried out better results in terms of energy efficiency and network lifetime in BSNs.
doi:10.30880/ijie.2018.10.06.008 fatcat:b42jxzottjby7b2cptrujdm2ra