An energy-efficient configuration management for multi-hop wireless body area networks

In this paper, a heuristic adaptive routing algorithm for an energy-efficient configuration management has been suggested which can reduce energy consumption while guaranteeing QoS for the emergency data in wireless body area networks (WBANs). The priority and vicinity of the nodes are taken into account for the selection of reachable parent nodes, when the nodes are disconnected due to the mobile nature of human body. We derive a mathematical model and presented algorithm for maintaining balanced power consumption with guaranteed QoS. A simulation has been performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed heuristic algorithm.