Hybrid Delay-based Routing Protocol (HDRP) for Wireless Body Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs) are a subset of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN s) that are responsible for monitoring vital sign-related data of patients and consequently routing this data towards a sink. WSNs are responsible for the monitoring of vital sign-related data of patients. WBSNs have some of the same routing issues that ordinary WSNs do when it comes to the routing of sensed data towards sinks. However, the specific needs of WBSNs impose certain additional limitations that need to be handled by the routing mechanisms in order for WBSNs to function properly. In this paper the proposed system is based on Hybrid Delay-based Routing Protocol (HDRP) routing techniques to control flooding packet in WBAN depending on the time required to build route among WBAN network elements. The results showed the proposed HDRP routing techniques has better performance in reducing the total minimum average of each packet delivery delay as Probabilistic routing with postural link costs (PRPLC) Routing Protocol as 22.3226 seconds, On Body Store and Flood Routing (OBSFR) Routing Protocol as 21.672 Seconds, HDRP Routing Protocol as 18.855 seconds, packet delivery ratio as 99.71 %, 99.91 %, and 99.93 %. for each PRPLC, OBSFR, and HDRP respectively.