An energy efficient fuzzy based adaptive routing protocol for Wireless Body Area Network

The Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is the new arising sub-field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) that made the already existing conventional healthcare methods to reach a new level of smart human monitoring. The scarcity in terms of power supply to the network makes network lifetime to be one of the main challenge for which an energy efficient routing technique is required. In this paper, an energy efficient fuzzy based adaptive routing protocol is proposed which is a fuzzy based clustering protocol that makes use of direct transmission technique depending upon the criticality and the location of the Sensor Nodes (SN). The simulation results show that the proposed technique improves the stability period and lifetime of the network.