WBSN in IoT Health-Based Application: Toward Delay and Energy Consumption Minimization

Table 1

Comparison of the state-of-the-art work.

Ref. no.	Proposed protocol	Problem addressed	Compared with	Limitation
[14]	Cyclostationarity-based sensing (CBS)	(i) Detection probability; (ii) Detection efficiency	Energy detector-based sensing (EDBS)	(i) IEEE 802.15.6 standard is not studied; (ii) Reliability is missing; (iii) QoS is not considered; (iv) Energy efficiency; (v) Collected data nature is not delivered efficiently; (vi) Mobility is not supported; (vii) Delay is not analyzed; (viii) Both interference and power constraint are missing
[15]	A hybrid power control and resource block allocation game	(i) Energy saving	Non-CR	(i) IEEE 802.15.6 standard is not studied; (ii) Reliability is missing; (iii) QoS is not considered; (iv) Collected data nature is not delivered efficiently; (v) Mobility is not supported; (vi) Both interference and power constraint are missing
[16]	CR-based solution for a MBAN	(i) Survey	—	—
[17]	Cognitive radio-based wireless body area networks	(i) Survey	—	—
[18]	A cognitive radio-based telemedicine system	(i) Probability of missed-detection (PMD) average power; (i) Probability of false alarm (PFA)	Non-CR	(i) IEEE 802.15.6 standard is not studied; (ii) Reliability is missing; (iii) QoS is not considered; (iv) Collected data nature is not delivered efficiently; (v) Mobility is not supported; (vi) Both interference and power constraint are missing
[19]	A cognitive radio body sensor network (CRBSN)	(i) Survey	—	—
[20]	CRBAN	(i) Network capacity; (ii) Spectral efficiency	—	(i) IEEE 802.15.6 standard is not studied; (ii) Reliability is missing; (iii) Energy efficiency was not studied; (iv) Collected data nature is not delivered efficiently; (v) Mobility is not supported; (vi) Delay is not analyzed
[21]	Multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) methods	(i) Network selection ranking	—	(i) IEEE 802.15.6 standard is not studied; (ii) Reliability is missing; (iii) Energy efficiency; (iv) Collected data nature is not delivered efficiently; (v) Mobility is not supported; (vi) Delay is not analyzed; (vii) Both interference and power constraint are missing
[23]	CR-enabled body area networks	(i) Survey	—	—