Reliable cross layer design for e-health applications—iot perspective

Abstract

Of late, there has been many applications are developed by the aid of IoT technology, such as smart city, e-health, smart home, industrial automation etc. In that, e-health is one of the efficient idea that is decidedly developed for healthcare sectors. IoT devices used in e-health applications are run by battery powered smart objects and low frequency links, which says energy constrained and unreliable nature of IoT network. Thus, providing potent healthcare service (regularly following and reporting the patients’ health information) in energy constrained network environment (battery power smart objects and low frequency links) is the prime need in resource constrained networks environment. In this chapter, reliable cross layer design is introduced to prolong the lifetime of IoT devices and reliable data transfer in IoT e-health applications. In proposed cross layer model, network layer and data link layer (MAC layer) are integrated. Reliability related parameter are included in route discover process and later MAC based power control technique make use of routing information, to obtain the suitable transmission power. Our results show that proposed cross layer design is reliable and energy efficient and it is more suitable for IoT e-health applications. © Springer International Publishing AG 2018.