Energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless body area networks

R Jaramillo, A Quintero… - … and Workshop on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)
should allow body sensors to get quick access to the channel and send data to the hub …

Performance study of low-power MAC protocols for wireless body area networks

S Ullah, KS Kwak - 2010 IEEE 21st International Symposium on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) allows the integration of low-power, miniaturized,
intelligent, invasive or/and non-invasive wireless sensor nodes that are used to monitor the …

BodyMAC: Energy efficient TDMA-based MAC protocol for wireless body area networks

G Fang, E Dutkiewicz - 2009 9th international symposium on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) enable placement of tiny biomedical sensors on or
inside the human body to monitor vital body signs. The IEEE 802.15. 6 task group is …

A survey on power-efficient MAC protocols for wireless body area networks

SA Gopalan, DH Kim, JW Nah… - 2010 3rd IEEE …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A comprehensive survey of MAC protocols for wireless body area networks

A Rahim, N Javaid, M Aslam, Z Rahman… - 2012 Seventh …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a comprehensive study of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols
developed for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). In WBANs, small battery operated on …

Performance analysis of medium access control protocol for wireless body area networks

N Bradai, LC Fourati, L Kamoun - 2013 27th International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, very interesting researches are concentrated to develop patient monitoring
systems for revolutionizing health monitoring. A wireless body area network (WBAN) needs …

Design and analysis of a MAC protocol for wireless body area network using wakeup radio

M Al Ameen, N Ullah, K Kwak - 2011 11th International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless sensor networks are widely used for healthcare applications. A new field known as
wireless body area networks (WBAN) has emerged to support this area. An energy efficient …

Energy-efficient multi-hop transmission in body area networks

HT Kwon, SK Lee - 2009 IEEE 20th International Symposium on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Energy-efficient MAC in wireless body area networks

J Yuan, C Li, W Zhu - 2013 international conference on …, 2013 - atlantis-press.com
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 …

An improved WBAN MAC protocol

S Bhoir, A Vidhate - 2014 international conference on computer …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is considered as a special type of a Wireless Sensor
Network (WSN) with its own challenges and requirements. A traditional WSN is designed to …