Experimental analysis for optimal separation between sensor and base station in WBANs

Zuneera Umair; Umair Mujtaba Qureshi; Faisal Karim  Shaikh; Nafeesa Bohra; Abdelmajid Khelil; Emad Felemban

doi:10.1109/HealthCom.2014.7001891

Experimental analysis for optimal separation between sensor and base station in WBANs

Zuneera Umair, Umair Mujtaba Qureshi, Faisal Karim Shaikh, Nafeesa Bohra, Abdelmajid Khelil, Emad Felemban

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

The reliable delivery of data is important in designing Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) employed for critical applications such as e-health. In order to communicate the data reliably from the sensors to the base station, the data transmission technique (star or multi-hop) and the transmission power plays a very important role. As transmission power is increased, transmission distance is increased and the data can be sent reliably to far nodes. However, in WBANs, there is always a limit to increase the transmission power. Keeping the power level at some low threshold and increasing the distance between a sensor and the base station results in reduced received power which ultimately degrades the data transmission. Thus, for star data transmission technique, the point to ponder is the maximum separation between a sensor and the base station to transmit the data reliably. The reliability in WBANs can be analyzed through different parameters such as received power, received signal strength indicator, link quality indicator, packet error rate, packet reception rate, etc. This paper aims at performing a reliability analysis for WBAN through the mentioned parameters to suggest an optimal sensor/base station separation using star data transmission technique. This analysis is performed employing the default routing protocol in TinyOS called the Collection Tree Protocol. Our study considers different sensor placements on different parts of the body as well as different angular offsets between sensor and base station.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	489-494
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479966448
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2014.7001891
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2014
Event	2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) - Natal, Brazil Duration: 15 Oct 2014 → 18 Oct 2014 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6992842/proceeding

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Conference	2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)
Country/Territory	Brazil
City	Natal
Period	15/10/14 → 18/10/14
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6992842/proceeding

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Umair, Z, Qureshi, UM, Shaikh, FK, Bohra, N, Khelil, A & Felemban, E 2014, Experimental analysis for optimal separation between sensor and base station in WBANs. in 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom). IEEE, pp. 489-494, 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), Natal, Brazil, 15/10/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2014.7001891

Experimental analysis for optimal separation between sensor and base station in WBANs. / Umair, Zuneera; Qureshi, Umair Mujtaba; Shaikh, Faisal Karim et al.
2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom). IEEE, 2014. p. 489-494.

Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

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