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Table 5 Temperature aware routing protocols in body area networks

From: A guide for the selection of routing protocols in WBAN for healthcare applications

Sl. no.

Protocol [ref. no.]

Goal

Performance metrics

Compared with

1

M2E2 protocol [61]

To reduce energy consumption and increase life time, to reduce link hotspot network in heterogeneous WBSNs

Packets sent to BS, number of dead nodes, total energy of network, number of cluster head

M-ATTEMPT

2

Reliability enhanced-adaptive threshold based thermal unaware energy-efficient multi-hop protocol (RE-ATTEMPT) [62]

To maximize the network lifetime and to remove the deficiencies of ATTEMPT protocol

Average rate of dead nodes, number of packets sent to sink, packets dropped and throughput

ATTEMPT

3

Thermal-aware multi constrained intra body QoS routing protocol (TMQoS) [63]

To ensure the required QoS demands along with maintaining the temperature of each node to a desirable level

Energy efficiency, average temperature rise, delay reliability, maximum temperature rise, packets meeting deadline

LTRT, TARA

4

Mobility-supporting adaptive threshold-based thermal-aware energy-efficient multi-hop protocol (M-ATTEMPT), ATTEMPT [64]

To sense the link hot-spot, to forward the data away from such links

Number of dead nodes, throughput, number of cluster heads per round, total energy of network

Multi-hop

5

Thermal-aware shortest hop routing algorithm (THSR) [65]

To reduce the node’s temperature and to prevent the formation of hotspot

Maximum temperature rise, average delay, packets dropped

LTR, SHR, HPR, TARA

6

Hotspot preventing routing (HPR) algorithm [60]

To prevent the formation of hotspots and to reduce the average packet delivery delay

Maximum temperature rise of any node, average packet delivery delay, total number of packets dropped

TARA, SHR

7

Routing algorithm for network of homogeneous and Id-less biomedical sensor nodes (RAIN) [66]

To be used in an in vivo network of homogeneous and id-less biomedical sensor nodes

Maximum temperature rise of nodes, average energy consumption per node, percentage packet delivery, average packet delivery delay

Controlled-FLOOD

8

Least total-route temperature routing protocol (LTRT) [58]

To reduce temperature caused by biomedical sensors implanted in human bodies

Average temperature rise and hop count per arrival packet

LTR, ALTR

9

Least temperature routing protocol (LTR), adaptive least temperature routing protocol (ALTR) [67]

To reduce the amount of heat produced in the network

Average temperature rise, delay, power consumption, packets dropped, lifetime of networks

TARA, SHR

10

Thermal-aware routing algorithm (TARA) [59]

To estimate the temperature variation of neighbor nodes and direct packets nearby the hotspot region

Maximum temperature rise, average temperature rise, delay performance

Shortest hop