Supervision : Maria POTOP-BUTUCARU

Communication Protocols in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN)

The rapid advances in sensors and ultra-low power wireless communication has enabled a new generation of wireless sensor networks: Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). In WBAN tiny devices are deployed in/on or around a human body, are able to detect and collect the physiological phenomena of the human body (such as: EEG, ECG, SpO2, etc.), and transmit this information to a collector point that will process it, take decisions, alert or record. WBAN is a recent challenging area. There are several concerns in this area ranging from energy efficient communication to designing delay efficient protocols that support nodes dynamic induced by human body mobility. Links have a very short range and a quality that varies with the wearer's posture. The transmission power is kept low to improve devices autonomy and reduce wearers electromagnetic exposition. In this thesis we investigate energy-efficient multi-hop communication protocols in WBAN. We analyze several strategies inspired from the area of DTN and WSN. These investigations open new and challenging research directions to design novel protocols for multi-hop communication including a cross-layer approach.?

2015-2021 Publications

• 2021
  • W. Badreddine, M. Potop‑Butucaru : “CLPB: vers une approche inter-couches pour une diffusion fiable dans les réseaux WBAN”, ALGOTEL 2021 — 23^es Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications, La Rochelle, France (2021)
• 2020
  • W. Badreddine, C. Chaudet, P. Federico, M. Potop‑Butucaru : “Broadcast strategies and performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 in wireless body area networks WBAN”, Ad Hoc Networks, 97, pp. 102006, (Elsevier) (2020)
• 2019
  • W. Badreddine, M. Potop‑Butucaru : “Reliable Cross-Layer Protocol for Broadcast in Wireless Body Area Networks”, ADHOC-NOW 2019 - 18^th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, vol. 11803, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, pp. 469-482, (Springer) (2019)
  • W. Badreddine, M. Potop‑Butucaru : “Peak Transmission Rate Resilient Crosslayer Broadcast for Body Area Networks”, Journées d'Etude sur la TéléSanté, Paris, France (2019)
• 2018
  • W. Badreddine : “Protocoles de communication dans les réseaux de capteurs corporels sans fil”, thesis, phd defence 12/07/2018, supervision Potop-butucaru, Maria (2018)
• 2017
  • W. Badreddine, N. Khernane, M. Potop‑Butucaru, C. Chaudet : “Convergecast in Wireless Body Area Networks”, Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 66, pp. 40-51, (Elsevier) (2017)
  • W. Badreddine, M. Potop‑Butucaru : “Peak Transmission Rate Resilient Crosslayer Broadcast for Body Area Networks”, 15 - 15 pages (2017)
• 2016
  • W. Badreddine, C. Chaudet, F. Petruzzi, M. Potop‑Butucaru : “Broadcast Strategies and Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 in Wireless Body Area Networks WBAN”, (2016)
  • W. Badreddine, C. Chaudet, F. Petruzzi, M. Potop‑Butucaru : “Les Stratégies de Diffusion dans les Réseaux Wireless Body Area Networks”, ALGOTEL 2016 - 18^es Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications, Bayonne, France (2016)
• 2015
  • W. Badreddine, C. Chaudet, F. Petruzzi, M. Potop‑Butucaru : “Broadcast strategies in Wireless Body Area Networks”, 18^th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Cancun, Mexico, pp. 83-90, (ACM) (2015)