A feasibility study of cluster-based energy harvesting aware routing protocol for body nanosensor network
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2020-08-25
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IEEE Computer Society Nigeria Section
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Wireless nanosensor network (WNSN) are networks of interconnected nano-nodes communicating at terahertz frequency. The nano-node range of communication as well as the overall performance of the WNSN is affected mainly by the path loss of the terahertz frequency band and also by the very limited nano-nodes resources and capacity. For that reason, there is need for a suitable routing protocol that will guarantee multihop communication in WNSN. Clustering technique has been proving to be a cost-effective method to provide successful communication for body WNSNs. However, the nanonode elected as the nano-cluster head diminishes its energy dynamically. This will result into loss of monitored data in the cluster and reduce the reliability of the network. Existing clustering techniques in WNSN proposed for health care application did not take the energy exhaustion of the nano-cluster head into consideration. Hence, this work gives a review of work done to date on WNSN routing protocol, identifies their weaknesses and then suggest the implementation of an energy harvesting aware protocol that employs cluster-based hierarchical architecture by considering two different scenarios (using a back-up cluster head technique and using a wireless energy transfer technique) with a view to ensuring lifetime operation of the nano-node, minimize packet loss and conserving energy.
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Backup Cluster, Nano-devices, Nanosensor, Routing, Terahertz
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Zakariyya, O. S., Yaro, A. S., Usman, A. D., Sani, S. M. & Tekanyi, A. M. S. (2020): A feasibility study of cluster-based energy harvesting aware routing protocol for body nanosensor network. IEEE TEICA-2020, 1st IEEE Multi-Conference on Trans-disciplinary Sciences, Engineering & Information Systems and Computing Applications, held at American University of Nigeria, Yola, on August 25th, 2020.