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Temperature-Aware Routing for Telemedicine Applications in Embedded Biomedical Sensor Networks

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Biomedical sensors, called invivo sensors, are implanted in human bodies, and cause some harmful effects on surrounding body tissues. Particularly, temperature rise of the invivo sensors is dangerous for surrounding tissues, and a high temperature may damage them from a long term monitoring. In this paper, we propose a thermal-aware routing algorithm, called least total-route-temperature (LTRT) protocol, in which nodes temperatures are converted into graph weights, and minimum temperature routes are obtained. Furthermore, we provide an extensive simulation evaluation for comparing several other related schemes. Simulation results show the advantages of the proposed scheme.

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Correspondence to Daisuke Takahashi.

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Takahashi, D., Xiao, Y., Hu, F. et al. Temperature-Aware Routing for Telemedicine Applications in Embedded Biomedical Sensor Networks. J Wireless Com Network 2008, 572636 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/572636

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