Media access control (MAC) plays a pivotal role in ensuring proper operation in wireless
body area networks (WBANs). However, current solutions still cannot satisfy the stringent …

With the promising applications in e-Health and entertainment services, wireless body area
network (WBAN) has attracted significant interest. One critical challenge for WBAN is to track …

Abstract Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are introduced as an enabling technology
in tele-health for patient monitoring. Designing an efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) …

The newly emerging wireless body area networks (WBANs) are intended to support both
medical applications and consumer electronic (CE) applications. These two types of …

Abstract The implementation of IEEE 802.15. 6 in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is
contention based. Meanwhile, IEEE 802.15. 4 MAC provides limited 16 channels in the …

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of recent energy-efficient medium access
control (MAC) protocols for wireless body area networks (WBANs) and presents a …

Along with the increase of people's urge for health care, e-health, as a term for healthcare
practice supported by electronic processes and communication, attracts more and more …

Targeting the medical monitoring applications of wireless body area networks (WBANs), a
hybrid medium access control protocol using an interrupt mechanism (I-MAC) is proposed to …

Extensive energy is consumed by Transceiver communication operation [1]. Existing
research on MAC layer focuses to maximize battery-powered sensor node's life. Bottleneck …

Medium access control protocols based on time division multiple access (TDMA) can
improve the reliability and efficiency of wireless body area network (WBAN). However …