作者
Zhi Li, Meng Chen, Guanglie Zhang
发表日期
2015/10
期刊
Wireless Networks
卷号
21
页码范围
2169-2180
出版商
Springer US
简介
Wearable computing technologies are becoming widely used in healthcare and for tracking various human work and leisure activities. The collection and transmission of sensor data are fundamental functions of these technologies. A wireless body area network (WBAN) helps these wearable devices to continuously acquire ambulatory and physiological signals in real time with multiple sensor nodes attached or implanted into a human body. Sensor nodes transmit data to a sink node with wireless connections can enable mobility of human bodies. Since the data transmission rate of each sensor node is different, we proposed a variable-rate transmission MAC protocol (VTMAC) with coordinator election based on the time division multiple access method. This adaptive coordinator election scheme can balance the sensor nodes’ power consumption to extend the lifetime of WBAN as possible. It can also …
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