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One of the most promising applications of nanotechnology is their use in health care scenarios to monitor, in real-time, several parameters inside the human body such as cancer biomarker detection, glucose level, etc. However, real-time medical parameters communication is constrained by the tiny size of nano-nodes and their extremely limited energy. Ongoing efforts in this area are in their very early stage of development. Therefore further research is required to propose a suitable communication model. In this paper, we study the deployment of nano-networks in a living biological environment, and we focus on communication protocols challenges that must be overcome. We also proposed a multi-hop data dissemination approach that transmits sensed data from nano-nodes moving inside an artery to an outside controller while optimizing energy consumption.
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Ferjani, H., Touati, H. (2019). Data Communication in Electromagnetic Nano-networks for Healthcare Applications. In: Renault, É., Boumerdassi, S., Leghris, C., Bouzefrane, S. (eds) Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking. MSPN 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11557. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22885-9_13
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