Energy-Efficient Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Body Sensor Networks

Rongrong Zhang received the B.E and M.E degree in communication and information systems from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China, in 2010 and 2013, respectively, and Ph.D degree in Computer Science at the University of Paris Descartes, France, in 2017. She was a research fellow from 2017 in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the College of Information Engineering, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. Her research interests focus on Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Area Body Networks for e-health applications, and Internet of Things.  Jihong Yu received the B.E degree in communication engineering and M.E degree in communication and information systems from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China, in 2010 and 2013, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer scienceat the University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, in 2016. He was a research fellow from 2017 in the School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Beijing Institute of Technology. His research interests include RFID technologies, wireless communications, and Internet of things.

• Introduction.- Reliable and energy-efficient leader election algorithms for WBSNs.- Medium access for concurrent traffic in WBSNs: protocol design and analysis.- On multi-channel broadcast in WBSNs with asynchronous duty cycles: theoretical foundation and algorithm design.- Energy-efficient sleep scheduling in WBSNs: from the perspective of minimum dominating set.- Conclusion.