# Adaptive Thermal-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network
## 5 Conclusions  
Good health is a focal concern for many in their daily lives. The continuous monitoring of patient's vital signs or physiological parameters for various diseases is a challenging task in the medical field. In the present era, the customary healthcare system is undergoing a change from traditional to a modernized patient-oriented approach which supports Telemedicine. Telemedicine systems ensure the implementation of modernized patient-oriented approaches to exchange medical information with ease of communication. Telemedicine is playing a significant role in remote monitoring, early disease detection, preventions and knowledge-based feedback from medical professionals. The mechanism of collecting vital sign information of patients demands the implementation of WBAN.  
In WBAN, temperature rise of nodes is the major issue that needs to be considered for the stability of the network. Considering the distinct characteristics of WBAN along with the routing issues, a routing protocol ATAR is presented in this work. ATAR performs efficient routing with the even distribution of temperature among all nodes. To evaluate the significance of ATAR, various experiments on the basis of temperature and throughput are carried out. The simulation results are compared with existing routing techniques, such as MRRP, SHR and TARA. The obtained results show the better performance of ATAR than MRRP, SHR and TARA. In addition, the temperature rise in ATAR did not cross the threshold value. Therefore, ATAR avoids tissue damage and ultimately extends the lifetime of WBAN. Furthermore, in ATAR, drop in temperature of a node (avoiding sending data after reaching threshold) improves the overall performance. The Throughput of the network also grows considerably in ATAR than in MRRP, SHR and TARA, along with the uniform distribution of temperature among the nodes.  
**Author Contributions:** [PERSON] implemented the protocol in OMNet++, performed simulations and results analysis, conducted the experiments and wrote the paper; [PERSON] and R.A. assisted in model designing and experiments. [PERSON] conceived the overall idea of proposed protocol and proof-read the manuscript.  
**Funding:** The Research is funded by the MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program and IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion).  
**Acknowledgments:** This research(paper) was performed for the Development of Radar Payload Technologies for Compact Satellite in Korea Aerospace Research Institute, funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT, and this research was supported by the MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program(2014-1-00743) supervised by the IITP(Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion). Any correspondence related to this paper should be addressed to [PERSON].  
**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.  
Figure 19: Average throughput with different nodes density at simulation time = 1000 s.