Examination of Wireless Body Area Network Using Mobile Sinks

Abstract

In the last few years, postural mobility has been seen as a significant barrier to the successful deployment of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN), and several mobility models have been put out to overcome this problem. Due to the sink node's fixed location in such topologies, WBAN performance was declining. The domains of other wireless networks including MANET, VANET, and FANET have successfully used Mobile Sink as a solution. The network lifespan and other QoS metrics like average end-to-end latency, PDR, throughput and energy consumption are significantly influenced by sink mobility. The random movement of the sink node is taken into account in this study effort to cope with the heterogeneity of network nodes and their movement pattern. Static and mobile sinks (Controlled and Random movements) are used to test both mobility models using Network Simulator NS2.35, and it was shown that mobile sinks improved WBAN performance for all QoS criteria.