Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs)refer to small sensor network that consists of sensor devices mounted on the surface of the body or implanted in the body,as such networks are employed to harvest physiological data o...Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs)refer to small sensor network that consists of sensor devices mounted on the surface of the body or implanted in the body,as such networks are employed to harvest physiological data of the human body or to act as an assistant regulator of several specific physiological indicators of the human body.The sensor devices transmit the harvested human physiological data to the local node via a public channel.Before transmitting data,the sensor device and the local node should perform mutual authentication and key agreement.It is proposed in this paper a secure mutual authentication scheme of blockchain-based in WBANs.To analyze the security of this scheme,formal security analysis,and informal security analysis are used,then the computation and communication costs are compared with those of the relevant schemes.Relevant experimental results reveal that the proposed scheme exhibit more effective control over energy consumption and promising.展开更多
Please WBANs are a sensor network for detection and collection of sensitive data to the human body,which is lightweight and mobile.WBANs transmit sensitive and significant messages through the public channel,which mak...Please WBANs are a sensor network for detection and collection of sensitive data to the human body,which is lightweight and mobile.WBANs transmit sensitive and significant messages through the public channel,which makes it easy for an attacker to eavesdrop and modify the messages,thus posing a severe threat to the security of the messages.Therefore,it is essential to put in place authentication and key agreement between different communication nodes in WBANs.In this paper,a lightweight and secure authenticated key agreement protocol in wireless body area networks is designed.It is capable to reduce the cost of sensor node computation while ensuring security.Besides,an informal security analysis is conducted to discuss the security of the protocol against well-known attacks.Finally,the energy consumption of the protocol is evaluated,and the results show that the sensor nodes only need low storage cost,computational cost and communication cost.展开更多
为解决无线体域网(Wireless Body Area Networks,WBAN)在人体运动过程中网络拓扑结构频繁变化导致链路质量和WBAN性能下降等问题,首先根据人体结构对WBAN网络拓扑进行优化,通过添加中继节点建立WBAN主干网,提供节点和hub之间相对稳定的...为解决无线体域网(Wireless Body Area Networks,WBAN)在人体运动过程中网络拓扑结构频繁变化导致链路质量和WBAN性能下降等问题,首先根据人体结构对WBAN网络拓扑进行优化,通过添加中继节点建立WBAN主干网,提供节点和hub之间相对稳定的链接,然后提出了适用于WBAN拓扑优化后的路由策略(Routing Protocol Based on Topology Optimization and Link Awareness,R-TOLA)。R-TOLA综合了链路质量感知和代价函数,通过调整主干网中继和节点中继获得最优化路径。仿真实验表明,基于拓扑结构优化和链路感知的R-TOLA协议和其他路由协议相比,在人体拓扑网络结构频繁变化的环境下具有网络生存时间更长、吞吐量更大等优势。展开更多
Wireless Body Area Network(WBAN)is a cutting-edge technology that is being used in healthcare applications to monitor critical events in the human body.WBAN is a collection of in-body and on-body sensors that monitor ...Wireless Body Area Network(WBAN)is a cutting-edge technology that is being used in healthcare applications to monitor critical events in the human body.WBAN is a collection of in-body and on-body sensors that monitor human physical parameters such as temperature,blood pressure,pulse rate,oxygen level,body motion,and so on.They sense the data and communicate it to the Body Area Network(BAN)Coordinator.The main challenge for the WBAN is energy consumption.These issues can be addressed by implementing an effective Medium Access Control(MAC)protocol that reduces energy consumption and increases network lifetime.The purpose of the study is to minimize the energy consumption and minimize the delay using IEEE 802.15.4 standard.In our proposed work,if any critical events have occurred the proposed work is to classify and prioritize the data.We gave priority to the highly critical data to get the Guarantee Tine Slots(GTS)in IEEE 802.15.4 standard superframe to achieve greater energy efficiency.The proposed MAC provides higher data rates for critical data based on the history and current condition and also provides the best reliable service to high critical data and critical data by predicting node similarity.As an outcome,we proposed a MAC protocol for Variable Data Rates(MVDR).When compared to existing MAC protocols,the MVDR performed very well with low energy intake,less interruption,and an enhanced packet-sharing ratio.展开更多
无线体域网(Wireless Body Area Network,WBAN)不仅应用于医疗保健领域,而且在特殊人群监护、运动、娱乐以及军事等领域也有着巨大的应用价值,然而WBAN技术自身的特点将严重影响数据传输的可靠性,如何设计一个可靠的路由协议成为一个具...无线体域网(Wireless Body Area Network,WBAN)不仅应用于医疗保健领域,而且在特殊人群监护、运动、娱乐以及军事等领域也有着巨大的应用价值,然而WBAN技术自身的特点将严重影响数据传输的可靠性,如何设计一个可靠的路由协议成为一个具有挑战性的工作。基于时隙滑动窗口提出了一种概率路由协议,提高了数据包传递的可靠性并减少了网络延迟。在VS2012上用C#语言对该路由算法进行实现,结果证明,在概率路由协议中加入时隙滑动窗口确实能够提高网络的可靠性。展开更多
Wireless sensor networks are a collection of intelligent sensor devices that are connected to one another and have the capability to exchange information packets amongst themselves.In recent years,this field of resear...Wireless sensor networks are a collection of intelligent sensor devices that are connected to one another and have the capability to exchange information packets amongst themselves.In recent years,this field of research has become increasingly popular due to the host of useful applications it can potentially serve.A deep analysis of the concepts associated with this domain reveals that the two main problems that are to be tackled here are throughput enhancement and network security improvement.The present article takes on one of these two issues namely the throughput enhancement.For the purpose of improving network productivity,a hybrid clustering based packet propagation protocol has been proposed.The protocol makes use of not only clustering mechanisms of machine learning but also utilizes the traditional forwarding function approach to arrive at an optimum model.The result of the simulation is a novel transmission protocol which significantly enhances network productivity and increases throughput value.展开更多
Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs) are expected to achieve high reliable communications among a large number of sensors.The outage probability can be used to measure the reliability of the WBAN.In this paper,we optimi...Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs) are expected to achieve high reliable communications among a large number of sensors.The outage probability can be used to measure the reliability of the WBAN.In this paper,we optimize the outage probability with the harvested energy as constraints.Firstly,the optimal transmit power of the sensor is obtained while considering a single link between an access point(AP) located on the waist and a sensor attached on the wrist over the Rayleigh fading channel.Secondly,an optimization problem is formed to minimize the outage probability.Finally,we convert the non-convex optimization problem into convex solved by the Lagrange multiplier method.Simulations show that the optimization problem is solvable.The outage probability is optimized by performing power allocation at the sensor.And our proposed algorithm achieves minimizing the outage probability when the sensor uses energy harvesting.We also demonstrate that the average outage probability is reduced with the increase of the harvested energy.展开更多
Wireless Body Area Sensor Network(WBASN)is an automated system for remote health monitoring of patients.WBASN under umbrella of Internet of Things(IoT)is comprised of small Biomedical Sensor Nodes(BSNs)that can commun...Wireless Body Area Sensor Network(WBASN)is an automated system for remote health monitoring of patients.WBASN under umbrella of Internet of Things(IoT)is comprised of small Biomedical Sensor Nodes(BSNs)that can communicate with each other without human involvement.These BSNs can be placed on human body or inside the skin of the patients to regularly monitor their vital signs.The BSNs generate critical data as it is related to patient’s health.The data traffic can be classified as Sensitive Data(SD)and Non-sensitive Data(ND)packets based on the value of vital signs.These data packets have different priority to deliver.The ND packets may tolerate some delay or packet loss whereas,the SD packets required to be delivered on time with minimized packet loss otherwise it can be life threating to the patients.In this research,we propose a Traffic Priority-aware Medical Data Dissemination(TPMD2)scheme forWBASN to deliver the data packets according to their priority based on the sensitivity of the data.The assessment of the proposed scheme is carried out in various experiments.The simulation results of the TPMD2 scheme indicate a significant improvement in packets delivery,transmission delay and energy efficiency in comparison with the existing schemes.展开更多
为提高无线体域网(Wireless Body Area Network,WBAN)能量效率和实现高吞吐量,提出一种多跳拓扑结构来节约能耗,延长网络寿命。通过设定代价函数选出前驱节点,使得被选用节点具有较多的剩余能量和较小传输间距。代价函数的剩余能量参数...为提高无线体域网(Wireless Body Area Network,WBAN)能量效率和实现高吞吐量,提出一种多跳拓扑结构来节约能耗,延长网络寿命。通过设定代价函数选出前驱节点,使得被选用节点具有较多的剩余能量和较小传输间距。代价函数的剩余能量参数用于平衡传感节点的能量损耗,距离参数确保包交付成功率。仿真结果表明,该协议得到稳定的高吞吐量,有助于WBAN对人体病症的连续监测。展开更多
Due to the advancement in wireless technology and miniaturization,Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs)have gained enormous popularity,having various applications,especially in the healthcare sector.WBANs are intrinsical...Due to the advancement in wireless technology and miniaturization,Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs)have gained enormous popularity,having various applications,especially in the healthcare sector.WBANs are intrinsically resource-constrained;therefore,they have specific design and development requirements.One such highly desirable requirement is an energy-efficient and reliable Data Aggregation(DA)mechanism for WBANs.The efficient and reliableDAmay ultimately push the network to operate without much human intervention and further extend the network lifetime.The conventional client-serverDAparadigm becomes unsuitable and inefficient for WBANs when a large amount of data is generated in the network.Similarly,in most of the healthcare applications(patient’s critical conditions),it is highly important and required to send data as soon as possible;therefore,reliable data aggregation in WBANs is of great concern.To tackle the shortcomings of the client-serverDAparadigm,theMobile Agent-Basedmechanismproved to be a more workable solution.In aMobile Agent-Based mechanism,a taskspecific mobile agent(code)traverses to the intended sources to gather data.Thesemobile agents travel on a predefined path called itinerary;however,planning a suitable and reliable itinerary for a mobile agent is also a challenging issue inWBANs.This paper presents a new Mobile Agent-Based DA scheme for WBANs,which is energy-efficient and reliable.Firstly,in the proposed scheme,the network is divided into clusters,and cluster-heads are selected.Secondly,a mobile agent is generated from the base station to collect the required data from cluster heads.In the case,if any fault occurs in the existing itinerary,an alternate itinerary is planned in real-time without compromising the network performance.In our simulation-based validation,we have found that the proposed system delivers significantly improved fault-tolerance and reliability with energy-efficiency and extended network lifetime in WBANs.展开更多
The Internet of Things(IoT)is a concept that refers to the deployment of Internet Protocol(IP)address sensors in health care systems to monitor patients’health.It has the ability to access the Internet and collect da...The Internet of Things(IoT)is a concept that refers to the deployment of Internet Protocol(IP)address sensors in health care systems to monitor patients’health.It has the ability to access the Internet and collect data from sensors.Automated decisions are made after evaluating the information of illness people records.Patients’health and well-being can be monitored through IoT medical devices.It is possible to trace the origins of biological,medical equipment and processes.Human reliability is a major concern in user activity and fitness trackers in day-to-day activities.The fundamental challenge is to measure the efficiency of the human system accurately.Aim to maintain tabs on the well-being of humans;this paper recommends the use of wireless body area networks(WBANs)and artificial neural networks(ANN)to create an IoT-based healthcare framework for hospital information systems(IoT-HF-HIS).Our evaluation system uses a server to estimate how much computing power is needed for modeling,and simulations of the framework have been done using data rate and latency requirements are implementing the energy-aware technology presented in this paper.The proposed framework implements several hospital information system case studies by building a time-saving simulation environment.As the world’s population ages,more and more people suffer from physical and emotional ailments.Using the recommended strategy regularly has been proven user-friendly,reliable,and cost-effective,with an overall performance of 95.2%.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61872138&61572188)。
文摘Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs)refer to small sensor network that consists of sensor devices mounted on the surface of the body or implanted in the body,as such networks are employed to harvest physiological data of the human body or to act as an assistant regulator of several specific physiological indicators of the human body.The sensor devices transmit the harvested human physiological data to the local node via a public channel.Before transmitting data,the sensor device and the local node should perform mutual authentication and key agreement.It is proposed in this paper a secure mutual authentication scheme of blockchain-based in WBANs.To analyze the security of this scheme,formal security analysis,and informal security analysis are used,then the computation and communication costs are compared with those of the relevant schemes.Relevant experimental results reveal that the proposed scheme exhibit more effective control over energy consumption and promising.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61872138).
文摘Please WBANs are a sensor network for detection and collection of sensitive data to the human body,which is lightweight and mobile.WBANs transmit sensitive and significant messages through the public channel,which makes it easy for an attacker to eavesdrop and modify the messages,thus posing a severe threat to the security of the messages.Therefore,it is essential to put in place authentication and key agreement between different communication nodes in WBANs.In this paper,a lightweight and secure authenticated key agreement protocol in wireless body area networks is designed.It is capable to reduce the cost of sensor node computation while ensuring security.Besides,an informal security analysis is conducted to discuss the security of the protocol against well-known attacks.Finally,the energy consumption of the protocol is evaluated,and the results show that the sensor nodes only need low storage cost,computational cost and communication cost.
文摘为解决无线体域网(Wireless Body Area Networks,WBAN)在人体运动过程中网络拓扑结构频繁变化导致链路质量和WBAN性能下降等问题,首先根据人体结构对WBAN网络拓扑进行优化,通过添加中继节点建立WBAN主干网,提供节点和hub之间相对稳定的链接,然后提出了适用于WBAN拓扑优化后的路由策略(Routing Protocol Based on Topology Optimization and Link Awareness,R-TOLA)。R-TOLA综合了链路质量感知和代价函数,通过调整主干网中继和节点中继获得最优化路径。仿真实验表明,基于拓扑结构优化和链路感知的R-TOLA协议和其他路由协议相比,在人体拓扑网络结构频繁变化的环境下具有网络生存时间更长、吞吐量更大等优势。
文摘Wireless Body Area Network(WBAN)is a cutting-edge technology that is being used in healthcare applications to monitor critical events in the human body.WBAN is a collection of in-body and on-body sensors that monitor human physical parameters such as temperature,blood pressure,pulse rate,oxygen level,body motion,and so on.They sense the data and communicate it to the Body Area Network(BAN)Coordinator.The main challenge for the WBAN is energy consumption.These issues can be addressed by implementing an effective Medium Access Control(MAC)protocol that reduces energy consumption and increases network lifetime.The purpose of the study is to minimize the energy consumption and minimize the delay using IEEE 802.15.4 standard.In our proposed work,if any critical events have occurred the proposed work is to classify and prioritize the data.We gave priority to the highly critical data to get the Guarantee Tine Slots(GTS)in IEEE 802.15.4 standard superframe to achieve greater energy efficiency.The proposed MAC provides higher data rates for critical data based on the history and current condition and also provides the best reliable service to high critical data and critical data by predicting node similarity.As an outcome,we proposed a MAC protocol for Variable Data Rates(MVDR).When compared to existing MAC protocols,the MVDR performed very well with low energy intake,less interruption,and an enhanced packet-sharing ratio.
文摘无线体域网(Wireless Body Area Network,WBAN)不仅应用于医疗保健领域,而且在特殊人群监护、运动、娱乐以及军事等领域也有着巨大的应用价值,然而WBAN技术自身的特点将严重影响数据传输的可靠性,如何设计一个可靠的路由协议成为一个具有挑战性的工作。基于时隙滑动窗口提出了一种概率路由协议,提高了数据包传递的可靠性并减少了网络延迟。在VS2012上用C#语言对该路由算法进行实现,结果证明,在概率路由协议中加入时隙滑动窗口确实能够提高网络的可靠性。
文摘Wireless sensor networks are a collection of intelligent sensor devices that are connected to one another and have the capability to exchange information packets amongst themselves.In recent years,this field of research has become increasingly popular due to the host of useful applications it can potentially serve.A deep analysis of the concepts associated with this domain reveals that the two main problems that are to be tackled here are throughput enhancement and network security improvement.The present article takes on one of these two issues namely the throughput enhancement.For the purpose of improving network productivity,a hybrid clustering based packet propagation protocol has been proposed.The protocol makes use of not only clustering mechanisms of machine learning but also utilizes the traditional forwarding function approach to arrive at an optimum model.The result of the simulation is a novel transmission protocol which significantly enhances network productivity and increases throughput value.
文摘Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs) are expected to achieve high reliable communications among a large number of sensors.The outage probability can be used to measure the reliability of the WBAN.In this paper,we optimize the outage probability with the harvested energy as constraints.Firstly,the optimal transmit power of the sensor is obtained while considering a single link between an access point(AP) located on the waist and a sensor attached on the wrist over the Rayleigh fading channel.Secondly,an optimization problem is formed to minimize the outage probability.Finally,we convert the non-convex optimization problem into convex solved by the Lagrange multiplier method.Simulations show that the optimization problem is solvable.The outage probability is optimized by performing power allocation at the sensor.And our proposed algorithm achieves minimizing the outage probability when the sensor uses energy harvesting.We also demonstrate that the average outage probability is reduced with the increase of the harvested energy.
基金This work was supported in part by Universiti TeknologiMalaysia(UTM)in the project under Institutional grant vote 08G49 and FRGS vote 5F349.
文摘Wireless Body Area Sensor Network(WBASN)is an automated system for remote health monitoring of patients.WBASN under umbrella of Internet of Things(IoT)is comprised of small Biomedical Sensor Nodes(BSNs)that can communicate with each other without human involvement.These BSNs can be placed on human body or inside the skin of the patients to regularly monitor their vital signs.The BSNs generate critical data as it is related to patient’s health.The data traffic can be classified as Sensitive Data(SD)and Non-sensitive Data(ND)packets based on the value of vital signs.These data packets have different priority to deliver.The ND packets may tolerate some delay or packet loss whereas,the SD packets required to be delivered on time with minimized packet loss otherwise it can be life threating to the patients.In this research,we propose a Traffic Priority-aware Medical Data Dissemination(TPMD2)scheme forWBASN to deliver the data packets according to their priority based on the sensitivity of the data.The assessment of the proposed scheme is carried out in various experiments.The simulation results of the TPMD2 scheme indicate a significant improvement in packets delivery,transmission delay and energy efficiency in comparison with the existing schemes.
文摘为提高无线体域网(Wireless Body Area Network,WBAN)能量效率和实现高吞吐量,提出一种多跳拓扑结构来节约能耗,延长网络寿命。通过设定代价函数选出前驱节点,使得被选用节点具有较多的剩余能量和较小传输间距。代价函数的剩余能量参数用于平衡传感节点的能量损耗,距离参数确保包交付成功率。仿真结果表明,该协议得到稳定的高吞吐量,有助于WBAN对人体病症的连续监测。
基金This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)funded by the Ministry of Education(Grant No.NRF-2020R1I1A3074141)the Brain Research Program through the NRF funded by the Ministry of Science,ICT,and Future Planning(Grant No.NRF-2019M3C7A1020406),and the“Regional Innovation Strategy(RIS)”through the NRF funded by the Ministry of Education.
文摘Due to the advancement in wireless technology and miniaturization,Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs)have gained enormous popularity,having various applications,especially in the healthcare sector.WBANs are intrinsically resource-constrained;therefore,they have specific design and development requirements.One such highly desirable requirement is an energy-efficient and reliable Data Aggregation(DA)mechanism for WBANs.The efficient and reliableDAmay ultimately push the network to operate without much human intervention and further extend the network lifetime.The conventional client-serverDAparadigm becomes unsuitable and inefficient for WBANs when a large amount of data is generated in the network.Similarly,in most of the healthcare applications(patient’s critical conditions),it is highly important and required to send data as soon as possible;therefore,reliable data aggregation in WBANs is of great concern.To tackle the shortcomings of the client-serverDAparadigm,theMobile Agent-Basedmechanismproved to be a more workable solution.In aMobile Agent-Based mechanism,a taskspecific mobile agent(code)traverses to the intended sources to gather data.Thesemobile agents travel on a predefined path called itinerary;however,planning a suitable and reliable itinerary for a mobile agent is also a challenging issue inWBANs.This paper presents a new Mobile Agent-Based DA scheme for WBANs,which is energy-efficient and reliable.Firstly,in the proposed scheme,the network is divided into clusters,and cluster-heads are selected.Secondly,a mobile agent is generated from the base station to collect the required data from cluster heads.In the case,if any fault occurs in the existing itinerary,an alternate itinerary is planned in real-time without compromising the network performance.In our simulation-based validation,we have found that the proposed system delivers significantly improved fault-tolerance and reliability with energy-efficiency and extended network lifetime in WBANs.
文摘The Internet of Things(IoT)is a concept that refers to the deployment of Internet Protocol(IP)address sensors in health care systems to monitor patients’health.It has the ability to access the Internet and collect data from sensors.Automated decisions are made after evaluating the information of illness people records.Patients’health and well-being can be monitored through IoT medical devices.It is possible to trace the origins of biological,medical equipment and processes.Human reliability is a major concern in user activity and fitness trackers in day-to-day activities.The fundamental challenge is to measure the efficiency of the human system accurately.Aim to maintain tabs on the well-being of humans;this paper recommends the use of wireless body area networks(WBANs)and artificial neural networks(ANN)to create an IoT-based healthcare framework for hospital information systems(IoT-HF-HIS).Our evaluation system uses a server to estimate how much computing power is needed for modeling,and simulations of the framework have been done using data rate and latency requirements are implementing the energy-aware technology presented in this paper.The proposed framework implements several hospital information system case studies by building a time-saving simulation environment.As the world’s population ages,more and more people suffer from physical and emotional ailments.Using the recommended strategy regularly has been proven user-friendly,reliable,and cost-effective,with an overall performance of 95.2%.