Link-quality-aware resource allocation with load balance in wireless body area networks

A Samanta, S Bera, S Misra - IEEE Systems Journal, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to interference from other coexisting wireless body area networks (WBANs), link quality
between a particular WBAN and access points (APs) significantly varies. Consequently, the …

RACOON: A multiuser QoS design for mobile wireless body area networks

SH Cheng, CY Huang, CC Tu - Journal of medical systems, 2011 - Springer
In this study, Ra ndom Co ntention-based Res o urce Allocatio n (RACOON) medium access
control (MAC) protocol is proposed to support the quality of service (QoS) for multi-user …

Distributed pricing policy for cloud-assisted body-to-body networks with optimal QoS and energy considerations

A Samanta, Y Li - IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud-Assisted Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) is one of the key emerging
technology for medical applications in the era of Internet-of-Things. In cloud-assisted …

Priority-based medium access control for wireless body area networks with high-performance design

G Sun, K Wang, H Yu, X Du… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The wireless body area network (WBAN) has attracted considerable attention. Two main
problems exist in WBANs: 1) the quality of service (QoS) requirements and 2) the energy …

Traffic-aware efficient mapping of wireless body area networks to health cloud service providers in critical emergency situations

S Misra, A Samanta - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a post-disaster situation, increased concentration of patients in an area increases the
traffic load of the network significantly, which degrades its performance with respect to …

Energy-efficient and distributed network management cost minimization in opportunistic wireless body area networks

A Samanta, S Misra - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobility induced by limb/body movements in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)
significantly affects the linkquality of intra-BAN and inter-BAN communication units, which, in …

Transmission-rate-adaption assisted energy-efficient resource allocation with QoS support in WBANs

Z Liu, B Liu, CW Chen - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the advances in wearable sensors and wireless technologies, wireless body area
network (WBAN) has become a promising network to provide health applications, such as …

QoS provisioning in wireless body area networks: a review on MAC aspects

A Thapa, SJ Shin - KSII Transactions on Internet and Information …, 2012 - koreascience.kr
Abstract Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) deal with variety of healthcare services with
diverse Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. However, QoS handling is a challenging …

Interference and priority aware resource allocation in coexisting WBANs using game models

EM George, L Jacob - Physical Communication, 2022 - Elsevier
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have become an integral part of our health
monitoring system. However, the specific challenges offered by a dense co-existence of …

Adaptive scheduling and power control for multi-objective optimization in IEEE 802.15. 6 based personalized wireless body area networks

BS Kim, B Shah, KI Kim - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-objective optimization (MOO) has been a topic of intense interest in providing flexible
trade-offs between conflicting optimization criteria in wireless body area networks (WBANs) …