Dynamic HUB Selection Process Based on Specific Absorption Rate for WBANs

Cicioglu M., Calhan A.

IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, cilt.19, sa.14, ss.5718-5722, 2019 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 19 Sayı: 14
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/jsen.2019.2906044
  • Dergi Adı: IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.5718-5722
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: HUB, Internet of Things, specific absorption rate, wireless body area networks, IEEE 802.15.6, SAR
  • Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) play an important role in remote health monitoring applications nowadays. WBANs consist of several sensor nodes and a fixed HUB on, in, or around the human body. HUB collects the data from the sensor nodes and sends the received data to a gateway. High data rates from HUB cause to increase in temperature of tissues. If an organ receives electromagnetic signals for longer time period, then it will be affected by heat and might be damaged. In this paper, specific absorption rate, battery level, and priority of the sensor nodes are taken into account for dynamical HUB selection process in WBANs. Therefore, the task of the HUB is shared among the sensor nodes to reduce the negative effects of electromagnetic signals due to fixed HUB placement.