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An efficient approach for the detection of link failures in WBAN system for health care applications
Author(s) -
Kalaiselvi K.,
Suresh G.R.,
Ravi V.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.4112
Subject(s) - computer science , body area network , link (geometry) , network packet , latency (audio) , computer network , wireless , wireless sensor network , real time computing , telecommunications
Summary Wireless body area network (WBAN) plays an important role in patient health care. The performance of this WBAN system is affected by link failures due to the presence of malicious sensor nodes. Hence, the detection and mitigation of this link failure is important for improving the efficiency of the WBAN system. This paper proposes a methodology for link failure detection using weight metric approach. The performance of the proposed methodology is analyzed in terms of packet delivery ratio (PDR), link failure detection latency, and link failure detection rate.