The use of wireless body area networks (WBANs) in healthcare applications has made it convenient to monitor both health personnel and patient status continuously in real time through wearable wireless sensor nodes. However, the heterogeneous and complex network structure of WBANs has some disadvantages in terms of control and management. The software‐defined network (SDN) approach is a promising technology that defines a new design and management approach for network communications. In order to create more flexible and dynamic network structures in WBANs, this study uses the SDN approach. For this, a WBAN architecture based on the SDN approach with a new energy‐aware routing algorithm for healthcare architecture is proposed. To develop a more flexible architecture, a controller that manages all HUBs is designed. The proposed architecture is modeled using the Riverbed Modeler software for performance analysis. The simulation results show that the SDN‐based structure meets the service quality requirements and shows superior performance in terms of energy consumption, throughput, successful transmission rate, and delay parameters according to the traditional routing approach.

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This paper aims to improve the clustering of vehicles by using fuzzy logic in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) for making the network more robust and scalable. High mobility and scalability are two vital topics to be considered while providing efficient and reliable communication in VANETs. Clustering is of crucial significance in order to cope with the dynamic features of the VANET topologies. Plenty of parameters related to user preferences, network conditions and application requirements such as speed of mobile nodes, distance to cluster head, data rate and signal strength must be evaluated in the cluster head selection process together with the direction parameter for highly dynamic VANET structures. The prominent parameters speed, acceleration, distance and direction information are taken into account as inputs of the proposed cluster head selection algorithm. The simulation results show that developed fuzzy logic (FL) based cluster head selection algorithm (CHSA) has stable performance in various scenarios in VANETs. This study has also shown that the developed CHSA FL satisfies well the highly demanding requirements of both low speed and high speed vehicles on two-way multilane highway.

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