Title :
Saturation Throughput Analysis of IEEE 802.15.6 Slotted Aloha in Heterogeneous Conditions
Author :
Chowdhury, Md Syeed ; Ashrafuzzaman, Kazi ; Kyung Sup Kwak
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Inha Univ., Incheon, South Korea
Abstract :
The IEEE 802.15.6 standard for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) specifies a slotted Aloha based protocol as a choice for medium access control. It has provision for different user priorities. In this letter, we present an analytical model to estimate the saturation throughput of this protocol considering a heterogeneous network comprised of multiple priorities of users. Numerical results are produced where the predictions from the model are validated by simulation.
Keywords :
Markov processes; access protocols; body area networks; personal area networks; probability; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.6 slotted Aloha; IEEE 802.15.6 standard; WBAN; heterogeneous conditions; heterogeneous network; medium access control; saturation throughput analysis; slotted Aloha based protocol; wireless body area networks; Analytical models; Equations; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Mathematical model; Throughput; Wireless communication; IEEE 802.15.6; analytical model; slotted aloha;
Journal_Title :
Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/WCL.2014.021714.140008
