Abstract
Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) technologies provide suitability among physicians and patients because they are useful in numerous medical fields. Wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) are one of the most crucial technologies from within the IoMT evolution of the healthcare system, whereby each patient is monitored by low-powered and lightweight sensors. When the WBSNs are integrated into IoMT networks, they are quite likely to overlap each other; thus, cooperation between WBSN sensors is possible. In this paper, we consider communication between WBSNs and beyond their communication range. Therefore, we propose inter-WBAN cooperation for the IoMT system, which is also known as inter-WBAN cooperation in an IoMT environment (IWC-IoMT). In this paper, first, a proposed architecture for the IoT health-based system is investigated. Then, a mathematical model of the outage probability for the IWC-IoMT is derived. Finally, the energy efficiency of the IWC-IoT is analysed and inspected. The simulation and numerical results show that the IWC-IoMT (cooperative IoMT) system provides superior performance compared to the non-cooperative system.
Highlights
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most powerful communication technologies of the 21st century
Wireless body sensor network (WBSN) technologies are one of the most powerful technologies that could be utilised in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) system [5]
Every sensor in WBSN is capable of gathering physiological signals, such as electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalogram (EEG) and movement, and sends the gathered signals to the coordinator node (CN) via a wireless medium or human body channel (HBC) for further analysis and inspection [6]
Summary
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most powerful communication technologies of the 21st century. Wireless body sensor network (WBSN) technologies are one of the most powerful technologies that could be utilised in the IoMT system [5]. WBSN technology comprises a group of low-power and lightweight devices with a transceiver which are used to observe the vital signs of the human body. WBSN paradigms are capable of providing long-range healthcare monitoring of humans without constraining their mobility or activity. These paradigms are used to create an intelligent and cheap healthcare-monitoring system and are used for diagnostic procedures [7]
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