In healthcare applications of WSN, the data loss due to congestion may cause death alarm for a patient in critical condition. Therefore, an efficient congestion avoidance or otherwise an efficient congestion control mechanism is required. In this paper, we present an energy efficient reliable multi-path data transmission protocol for reliable data transport over WSN for the health care application. The emergency data and sensitive data packets are transmitted through an alternate path having minimum correlation with transmission interference during congestion. The proposed protocol attempts to avoid congestion by computing the probability of congestion at the intermediate nodes and transmission rate at the intermediate node is adjusted. The buffer of each node is partitioned to support fair and efficient data delivery. The reliability of the proposed protocol is achieved through hop-by-hop loss recovery and acknowledgement. The performance of the proposed protocol is evaluated through extensive simulations. The simulation results reveal that it outperforms the existing congestion control protocols for healthcare application in terms of energy efficiency, reliability and end-to-end delivery ratio.
['Prabhudutta Mohanty', 'Manas Ranjan Kabat']
Energy Efficient Reliable Multi-path Data Transmission in WSN for Healthcare Application