Energy Efficient Cross- Layer (EECL) Approach for WBAN using Hybrid Protocol

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) has a broad application in the field of health care such
as disease analysis, diagnostic monitoring and tracking, etc. With techniques like single and multi-hop
through relay node and opportunistic schemes help in increasing the life time of the network. In case of
wireless sensor networks (WSN) the most prominent issue to be tackled is the energy consumption. In
wireless network communication loss of data i.e., packet loss and collisions are high. So as to prolong the
networks lifetime it is important to increase the life of all the network nodes. Hence developing an energy
efficient algorithm is a challenge. Protocols have to be efficient in selecting a route for retransmitting the
data when the range falls beyond the threshold value. An hybrid LEACH (Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy) algorithm for WSN is presented in this paper to tackle the issue of on-demand, traffic and emergency situations. We also discuss on the application of WBAN using examples. Through the proposed discussion we conclude that there is a need for optimized solutions for both on and in-body network
sensors