Improved packet delivery ratio in smart rehabilitation patient monitoring in wireless body area network using ICTAR protocol compared with CTAR protocol

• Main Authors: Prasanna, M. Devi, Senthilkumar, C.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Body area networks; Clusters; Energy consumption; Independent sample; Monitoring; Nodes; Rehabilitation; Statistical significance; Wireless networks
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/5.0233016

The primary objective of this scheme is to develop a cluster-based thermal-aware routing protocol that can improve the packet delivery ratio while simultaneously reducing the amount of energy that is consumed in smart rehabilitation patient monitoring through wireless body area networks. This will be accomplished by comparing the existing Cardiothoracic Ratio protocol with the proposed ICTAR protocol. Methodologies and Instruments for Research: The proposed ICTAR protocol decreases the amount of energy that is consumed while simultaneously increasing the percentage of packets that are delivered. This is accomplished by developing a cluster-based thermal-aware routing protocol that selects the cluster head (CH) in an effective manner. This strategy eliminates the possibility of a single root point failure. For the purpose of selecting the cluster head, a number of parameters are taken into consideration. These factors include the weights of retrieved nodes, the thermal range, the distance between nodes, and the innovative hop count between nodes. The acceleration of the convergence process, which in turn improves thermal control and energy economy, is achieved through the decrease of superfluous acknowledgements and broadcasts that do not occur repeatedly. With a pre-test power of eighty percent (G-power), twenty samples with two groups (n=20), and alpha and beta coefficients of 0.05 and 0.2, respectively, Clinicalc.com was utilised in order to compute the results. As can be observed from the results, the ICTAR protocol performed significantly better than the CTAR protocol in terms of decreased energy consumption by 16.5% and enhanced packet delivery ratio (PDR) (11.2 percent ). Based on the findings of the Independent Sample T-test, it can be concluded that the ICTAR procedure has statistical significance (p