• Corpus ID: 36474908

Cooperative Routing Protocols in Wireless Body Area Networks ( WBAN ) : A Survey

@inproceedings{Jafari2017CooperativeRP,
  title={Cooperative Routing Protocols in Wireless Body Area Networks ( WBAN ) : A Survey},
  author={Reza Jafari and Mehdi EffatParvar},
  year={2017}
}

• R. Jafari, M. EffatParvar
• Published 2017
• Computer Science

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is composed from the embedded sensors on the body that monitors the vital signs of the body are certain organs. Sensors collect data on the different parts of the body and send them to the sink. In the recent years, significant researches are done for reliable, secure and efficient communications of sensors to transfer collected data from sensors to the sink. Reducing of network lifetime is one of the most important criteria’s in WBANs and most of the presented articles in the last years, are focused on providing cooperative routing protocols to achieve minimum energy consumption and longer network lifetime. On the other hand, Packet Reception Ratio (PRR) is another metric has been considered in WBANs’ routing protocols to have higher rate of successfully received packets in the sink. We try to list and present some of the recent articles that provide cooperative routing protocols that attempt to reduce network lifetime and PRR.