From: A guide for the selection of routing protocols in WBAN for healthcare applications
Sl. no. | Protocol [ref. no.] | Goal | Performance metrics | Compared with |
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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 |