Temperature aware probabilistic sleep cycle management for body area sensor networks

Abstract

Wireless Body area networks comprise of sensor nodes attached on or implanted inside the human body and promise large improvements in patients health monitoring. However, the heat generated by the sensor nodes circuitry can cause damage to the tissues in the human body. Therefore, in an attempt to reduce the heat generated, efficient sleep cycles and temperature-aware routing for the sensor nodes should be established. In this paper, we present a probabilistic sleep cycle management and a temperature aware data-packet routing algorithm.