Implementation and Reliability Analysis of LEACH and SIMPLE protocols in WBAN for Health Monitoring of Canine

Abstract

Recent technological growth of wireless sensor networks, encourage realization of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) for health sector. WBAN is developed formonitoring living bodies for example, human, pet etc. Human and pets often form a bond as pets benefit their owners mentally, physically, and socially. Hence idea to monitor the health of pets by using WBAN is very interesting. In the proposed worka WBAN has been deployed on a body of canine for health monitoring purpose. To make the considered WBAN, energy efficient and reliable a critical comparative analysis of SIMPLE protocol has been done with respect to LEACH protocol by evaluating various performance metrics (End to end delay, throughput propagation delay, BER). It is observable from the simulation results that SIMPLEprotocol has better throughput, end-to end delay and propagation delay in comparison to LEACH protocol for the considered WBAN. Additionally BER for SIMPLE protocol is better than LEACH protocol for the same WBAN. Thus it will be beneficial to implement SIMPLE protocol for WBAN.