LTE-NBP with holistic UWB-WBAN approach for the energy efficient biomedical application

Increased use of ultra-wideband (UWB) in biomedical applications based on wireless body area networks (WBAN) opens a variety of options in the field of biomedical research. WBAN may aid in the continuous health monitoring of patients while they go about their everyday lives. Many studies and researchers were conducted several experimentations in the same field for the performance improvement. This study covered the hybridization of UWB technology, as well as on-body, off-body, and human-body ultra-wideband communication (HB-UWB). In this paper, the parameters considered are throughput, energy consumption, energy efficiency, energy used, network survival and delay. An improved model for design and assessment of power-saving UWB-WBAN was developed in this paper. A novel protocol model was introduced in this paper, namely low-power traffic-aware emergency based narrowband protocol (LTE-NBP) to overcome the major drawbacks of emergency, critical data transmission, reliability and the power issues in UWB-WBAN. It's the emergency-based low-power traffic-aware narrowband protocol. It is based on the dual-band physical layer technology. The suggested protocol considered an aware traffic model and an emergency medium access control (MAC) protocol. The proposed model's performance was evaluated and compared with the related algorithms on different performance parameters. The improved model is found to be efficient in throughput, energy efficiency, energy consumption, and delay.

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Increased use of ultra-wideband (UWB) in wireless body area networks (WBAN) provides various options for biomedical research, such as continuous health monitoring of patients. This study focuses on the hybridization of UWB technology and explores on-body, off-body, and human-body ultra-wideband communication (HB-UWB). Through considering parameters like throughput, energy consumption, and delay, an improved power-saving UWB-WBAN design and assessment model is proposed. A low-power traffic-aware emergency-based narrowband protocol (LTE-NBP) is introduced to address issues related to emergency data transmission and power consumption in UWB-WBAN. The proposed model shows improved performance in terms of throughput, energy efficiency, and delay compared to existing algorithms.