ZEQoS: A New Energy and QoS-Aware Routing Protocol for Communication of Sensor Devices in Healthcare System. (5th June 2014)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- ZEQoS: A New Energy and QoS-Aware Routing Protocol for Communication of Sensor Devices in Healthcare System. (5th June 2014)
- Main Title:
- ZEQoS: A New Energy and QoS-Aware Routing Protocol for Communication of Sensor Devices in Healthcare System
- Authors:
- Khan, Zahoor Ali
Sivakumar, Shyamala
Phillips, William
Robertson, Bill - Other Names:
- Verikoukis Christos Academic Editor.
- Abstract:
- Abstract : This paper proposes a novel integrated energy and QoS-aware routing protocol with the considerations of energy, end-to-end latency, and reliability requirements of body area network (BAN) communication. The proposed routing protocol, called ZEQoS, introduces two main modules (MAC layer and network layer) and three algorithms (neighbor table constructor, routing table constructor, and path selector). To handle ordinary packets (OPs), delay-sensitive packets (DSPs), and reliability-sensitive packets (RSPs), the new mechanism first calculates the communication costs, end-to-end path delays, and end-to-end path reliabilities of all possible paths from a source to destination. The protocol then selects the best possible path(s) for OPs, RSPs, and DSPs by considering their QoS requirement. Extensive simulations using OMNeT++ based simulator Castalia 3.2 demonstrate that the performance of the proposed integrated algorithm is satisfactory when tested on a real hospital scenario, and all data types including OPs, DSPs, and RSPs are used as offered traffic. Simulations also show that the ZEQoS also offers better performance in terms of higher throughput, less packets dropped on MAC and network layers, and lower network traffic than comparable protocols including DMQoS and noRouting.
- Is Part Of:
- International journal of distributed sensor networks. (2014)
- Journal:
- International journal of distributed sensor networks
- Issue:
- (2014)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 2014, Issue 2014 (2014)
- Year:
- 2014
- Volume:
- 2014
- Issue:
- 2014
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2014-2014-2014-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2014-06-05
- Subjects:
- Sensor networks -- Periodicals
Intelligent agents (Computer software) -- Periodicals
Multisensor data fusion -- Periodicals
681.2 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t714578688~db=all ↗
http://www.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=1550-1329 ↗
http://dsn.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1155/2014/627689 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1550-1329
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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