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To disseminate this sensitive patient information from the controller to remote Medical Server (MS) needs to be prolonged high-speed wireless technology, i.e., LTE, UMTS, WiMAX, WiFi, and satellite communication. It is a challenging task for the controller to choose the optimal network to disseminate various patient vital signs, i.e., emergency data, normal data, and delay-sensitive data. According to the nature of various biosensor nodes in WBSNs, monitor patient vital signs and provide complete intelligent treatment when any abnormality occurs in the human body, i.e., accurate insulin injection when patient sugar level increased. In this paper, first, we select the optimal network from accessible networks using four different fuzzy attribute-based decision-making techniques (Triangular Cubic Hesistent Fuzzy Weighted Averaging Operator, Neutrosophic Linguistic TOPSIS method, Trangualar Cubic Hesistent Fuzzy Hamacher Weighted Averaging Operator and Cubic Grey Relational Analysis) depending upon the quality of service requirement for various application of WBSNs to prolong the human life, enhanced the society\u2019s medical treatment and indorse living qualities of people. Similarly, leakage and misuse of patient data can be a security threat to human life. Thus, confidential data transmission is of great importance. For this purpose, in our proposed scheme, we used HECC for secure key exchange and an AES algorithm to secure patient vital signs to protect patient information from illegal usage. Furthermore, MAC protocol is used for mutual authentication among sensor nodes and Base Stations (BS). Mathematical results show that our scheme is efficient for optimal network selection in such circumstances where conflict arises among diverse QoS requirements for different applications of WBSNs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/jifs-191104","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,11]],"date-time":"2021-06-11T10:30:54Z","timestamp":1623407454000},"page":"37-55","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Efficient network selection using multi fuzzy criteria for confidential data transmission in wireless body sensor networks"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"41","author":[{"given":"Jawaid","family":"Iqbal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology, Hazara University Mansehra, Mansehra, Pakistan"},{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan"}]},{"given":"Arif Iqbal","family":"Umar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology, Hazara University Mansehra, Mansehra, Pakistan"}]},{"given":"Noor","family":"Ul Amin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology, Hazara University Mansehra, Mansehra, Pakistan"}]},{"given":"Abdul","family":"Waheed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology, Hazara University Mansehra, Mansehra, Pakistan"},{"name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea"}]},{"given":"Saleem","family":"Abdullah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departemtn of Mathematics, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan"}]},{"given":"Mahdi","family":"Zareei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Zapopan, Mexico"}]},{"given":"Muazzam Ali Khan","family":"Khattak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Quid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan"}]}],"member":"179","reference":[{"key":"10.3233\/JIFS-191104_ref1","unstructured":"Sahana A. , Misra I.S. , Implementation of RSA security protocol for sensor network security: Design and network lifetime analysis, In 2011 2nd International Conference on wireless communication, vehicular technology, information theory and aerospace & electronic systems technology (Wireless VITAE), (2011), pp. 1\u20135. 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