Performance Analysis of Multi-hop and Cluster Based Routing Protocols for Mobile Heath Monitoring

This paper aims to depict the performance of cluster based routing protocol (Leach protocol) and multipath routing protocol (Multipath Ring Routing protocol) for Wireless Body Sensor Networks where the mobility is a crucial constraint to handle. Previous works mainly dedicate the above mentioned protocols to Wireless Sensor Networks where the topology is static and support hundreds of sensors, however, their performance is expected to highly degrade when it comes to a mobile environment including a limited number of sensors. The results proved that multipath routing performs better than cluster based routing in both static and mobile topology.