Presenting a Reliable Routing Approach in IoT Healthcare Using the Multiobjective-Based Multiagent Approach

• Published in: Wireless communications and mobile computing 2021, Vol.2021 (1)
• Main Authors: Javid, Saeed, Mirzaei, A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Changing environments; Communication; Context; Data transfer (computers); Data transmission; Environmental monitoring; Failure; Flexible components; Genetic algorithms; Health care; Health services; Information transfer; Innovations; Internet of Things; Medical equipment; Monitoring systems; Multiagent systems; Multiple objective analysis; Nursing; Optimization; Patients; Sensors; Wireless networks
• ISSN: 1530-8669; 1530-8677
• DOI: 10.1155/2021/5572084

Developments in information and related technologies have led to a wider use of the Internet of things (IoT). By integrating both virtual and physical worlds, IoT creates an integrated communication framework of interrelated things and operating systems. With the advent of IoT systems based on digital remote care, transferring medical data is becoming a daily routine. Healthcare is one of the most popular IoT applications and tries to monitor patients’ vital signs during the day for weeks and to eliminate the need for hospitalization. In a healthcare system, many sensors are installed to collect the patient’s information, including environmental monitoring sensors and vital and unstructured message sensors in order to reduce the patients’ expenses. The IoT network contains flexible sensors in dynamically changing environments where sensors collect environmental information and send it to nursing stations for healthcare applications. Due to the wireless nature of IoT networks, secure data transmission in the healthcare context is very important. Data collected from sensors embedded in healthcare devices may be lost for various reasons along the transmission path. Therefore, establishing a secure communication path in IoT networks in the context of healthcare is of great importance. In this paper, in order to provide a reliable data transfer protocol in the context of healthcare, a reliable routing using multiobjective genetic algorithm (RRMOGA) method is presented. The contribution of this paper can be summarized in two steps: (i) using a multiobjective optimization approach to find near-optimal paths and (ii) using reliable agents in the network to find backup paths. The simulation outcomes reveal that the proposed approach, based on the use of the multiobjective optimization approach, tries to find optimal paths for information transfer that improve the main parameters of the network. Also, the use of secure agents leads to a secure information transfer in the network in the context of healthcare. Experimental results show that the proposed method has achieved reliability and data delivery rates, 99% and 99.9%, respectively. The proposed method has improved network lifetime, delivery rate, and delay by 14%, 2%, and 5.6%, respectively.