Using MANET in IoT Healthcare Applications: A Survey

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is an innovative technology and an efficient solution that facilitates the real-time interconnection within physical devices through heterogeneous networks. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) play significant roles in IoT-based systems. The interactions between WSN and the IoT create innovative MANET-IoT systems that result in several design challenges. MANET-based IoT systems are being used in several application domains. Nowadays, MANET-IoT healthcare applications have become a trend due to the novel COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we discuss the possible approaches of routing frameworks to achieve the optimum Quality of Service(QoS) in the MANET-IoT healthcare domain. The presented analysis highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and discusses the impact of the findings on network design. The paper presents an in-depth review of using MANET-IoT in healthcare applications and explores the MANET-IoT healthcare system architecture with its related sensors to help designers better understand the possible options