Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Energy-efficient multi-hop medical sensor networking
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE international workshop on Systems and networking support for healthcare and assisted living environments
Wireless Sensor Networks for Home Health Care
AINAW '07 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops - Volume 02
Temperature-aware routing for telemedicine applications in embedded biomedical sensor networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Wireless Telemedicine and Applications
Efficient routing in intermittently connected mobile networks: the single-copy case
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Efficient routing in intermittently connected mobile networks: the multiple-copy case
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Medium access control protocols and routing algorithms for wireless sensor networks
Medium access control protocols and routing algorithms for wireless sensor networks
AnyBody: a self-organization protocol for body area networks
Proceedings of the ICST 2nd international conference on Body area networks
Body-coupled communication for body sensor networks
BodyNets '08 Proceedings of the ICST 3rd international conference on Body area networks
A Low-delay Protocol for Multihop Wireless Body Area Networks
MOBIQUITOUS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Fourth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking&Services (MobiQuitous)
A Thermal-aware Shortest Hop Routing Algorithm for in vivo Biomedical Sensor Networks
ITNG '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Modeling on-body DTN packet routing delay in the presence of postural disconnections
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on opportunistic and delay tolerant networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
TARA: thermal-aware routing algorithm for implanted sensor networks
DCOSS'05 Proceedings of the First IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Distributed node location in clustered multi-hop wireless networks
AINTEC'05 Proceedings of the First Asian Internet Engineering conference on Technologies for Advanced Heterogeneous Networks
Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare Applications
Journal of Medical Systems
Routing and mobility approaches in IPv6 over LoWPAN mesh networks
International Journal of Communication Systems
Prevailing over wires in healthcare environments: benefits and challenges
IEEE Communications Magazine
A Comprehensive Survey of Wireless Body Area Networks
Journal of Medical Systems
Body sensor network mobile solutions for biofeedback monitoring
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on Wireless and Personal Communications
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Recent advances in electronics and integrated circuits have fostered the development of small and intelligent medical sensors and actuators that are wearable or implementable inside the human body. The main function of these devices is to collect patient's physiological parameters and forward them to the medical center in an efficient and reliable way. Therefore, routing is a non-trivial task in wireless body area networks WBAN; sensing the importance of routing in WBAN and the availability of a significant body of literature on this topic are the main motivations that encourage the study and examination of routing mechanisms. This paper proposes WBAN routing approaches. It outlines the design challenges for WBAN routing protocols and sketches out the communication architecture of this type of network. The authors' main contribution is the classification of the routing techniques into six main categories, which corresponds to thermal aware routing protocols, cluster based routing protocols, cross layers based routing protocols, quality of service QoS aware routing protocols, and delay tolerant aware routing protocols. The advantages and performance issues of each routing technique are highlighted. This paper is useful for researchers to make enhancements to the future design of WBAN routing protocols and algorithms.