Title: A dynamic resource assignment scheme with aggregation node selection and power conservation for WBAN based applications

Authors: Mahfuzulhoq Chowdhury

Addresses: Computer Science and Engineering Department, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chittagong-4349, Bangladesh

Abstract: For real-time health status monitoring and treatment, the development of an efficient resource management scheme is an important research issue for wireless body area network (WBAN) based medical applications. To cope with the different application requirements, the coordination of cluster head selection, dynamic medium access control mechanism (MAC) considering both critical and normal data transfer, end-to-end connectivity, data transfer to multiple processing and destination device, intermediate node selection, and proper path selection, is mandatory. In this paper, a dynamic resource assignment scheme is proposed that assigns bandwidth and medical server resources to WBAN users for data transfer without any backoff delay and selects both the cluster head node and aggregation sensor node for the aid of WBAN sensors. The evaluation results show that the proposed dynamic resource assignment scheme performs better results than the compared random assignment scheme in terms of the delay overhead, energy overhead, goodput, and network lifetime.

Keywords: WBAN; wireless body area network; resource assignment; power conservation; cluster head selection; goodput; network lifetime.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2021.114742

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2021 Vol.35 No.4, pp.207 - 220

Received: 13 Jul 2020
Accepted: 02 Aug 2020
Published online: 04 May 2021 *

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