{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,10]],"date-time":"2026-06-10T16:53:13Z","timestamp":1781110393315,"version":"3.54.1"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"IGI Global Scientific Publishing","issue":"2","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2016,7,1]]},"abstract":"<p>This paper proposes an alternative model to deliver vital signs of patients in a hospital indoor environment where a large number of patients exist and the traffic generated rapidly changes over time using Body Area Network (BAN). The methodology for finding an optimal path includes a meta-heuristic that combines ANT Colony Optimization (ACO). The authors propose an ACO based framework for monitoring data originating from a BAN to improve network life, energy and load balancing of the overall network. Since the traffic generated by BANs on the network changes with time, finding a shortest path is important for Hospital Area Network. In this paper, the authors implemented an ACO based method and have carried out simulations using OMNeT++ to prove that the proposed method can find a better solution than conventional methods.<\/p>","DOI":"10.4018\/ijbdcn.2016070102","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,10,26]],"date-time":"2016-10-26T08:12:16Z","timestamp":1477469536000},"page":"16-27","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["A Soft Computing Approach for Data Routing in Hospital Area Networks (HAN)"],"prefix":"10.4018","volume":"12","author":[{"family":"Rakhee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"M. B.","family":"Srinivas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2432","container-title":["International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking"],"original-title":[],"language":"ng","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.igi-global.com\/viewtitle.aspx?TitleId=170441","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,1]],"date-time":"2022-06-01T21:11:27Z","timestamp":1654117887000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/services.igi-global.com\/resolvedoi\/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018\/IJBDCN.2016070102"}},"subtitle":[""],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2016,7,1]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2016,7]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4018\/ijbdcn.2016070102","relation":{},"ISSN":["1548-0631","1548-064X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1548-0631","type":"print"},{"value":"1548-064X","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2016,7,1]]}}}