MAEB: Routing Protocol for IoT Healthcare

Haoru Su, Zhiliang Wang, Sunshin An

Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/ait.2013.32A002                

Abstract

Healthcare is one of the most promising applications of Internet of Things. This paper describes a prototype for the IoT healthcare systems. We propose the Movement-Aided Energy-Balance (MAEB) routing protocol. The movement and energy information of the neighbor Coordinators are collected and stored in the neighbor discovery procedure. The MAEB forwarding is used to select the most suitable neighbor to forward the data. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol has better performance than the other three routing protocols.

Keywords

IoT; Healthcare; Routing

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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