In this paper, we present a Medium Access Control Protocol (MAC) for a Wireless Body Area
Network (WBAN). Designing of MAC for WBAN has key challenges like power efficiency and …

The major medium access control (MAC) layer protocol design challenges for wireless body
area network (WBAN) involve Quality of Service assurance for high reliability and …

Recently wireless body area network (WBAN) draws more and more attentions because of
its benefits especially in health monitoring. As the sensor nodes in WBAN are battery …

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have become a leading solution in Mobile Health
(mHealth). Typically, a WBAN consists of in-body or around-body sensor nodes for collecting …

Sensor networks are being researched and deployed in wide range of applications in
healthcare. These networks when centered on the proximity of human body create an …

The rapid development of medical sensors has increased the interest in Wireless Body Area
Network (WBAN) applications where physiological data from the human body and its …

In this paper, an analytical power consumption model for beacon-mode and CSMA/CA-
mode access schemes is developed for a wireless body area network (WBAN). Apart from …

Compared to Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Body Area Network (BAN) has its own
unique requirements and further, it is more difficult to equip the medical sensors with …

Design of power-efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols in wireless body area
networks (WBANs) is important as it helps to prolong the network lifetime. This paper …

In recent days, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) comprising with different bio-sensors
(eg, EEG, EMG, and ECG etc.) has been getting popular for observing human health …