A smart QoS- based traffic management for WBANs

Author

Berrahal, Sarra ; Boudriga, Noureddine

Author_Institution

Commun. Networks & Security Res. Lab., Univ. of Carthage, Ariana, Tunisia

fYear

2014

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

161

Lastpage

165

Abstract

Wearable sensing technologies such as Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) for hazardous environments moni- toring generate heterogeneous types of traffic with diverse quality of service requirements related to delay, reliability, priority awareness and throughput, for instance. In addition, several WBANs might need to collaborate together by relaying each other´s packets, as generated by constraining services, for real-time delivery to their destinations. This paper proposes a smart traffic management approach for a Network of WBANs capable of guaranteeing critical QoS constraints and introducing valuable functionalities for a better traffic engineering including QoS-based scheduling, flow synchronization, traffic regulation, and resource optimization.

Keywords

body area networks; quality of service; telecommunication network management; telecommunication scheduling; telecommunication traffic; QoS-based scheduling; WBAN traffic; flow synchronization; hazardous environments monitoring; quality of service; real-time delivery; reliability; resource optimization; traffic management approach; traffic regulation; wearable sensing technologies; wireless body area network; Delays; Monitoring; Quality of service; Real-time systems; Reliability; Scheduling; Synchronization; Network of WBANs; constraining QoS; regulation; scheduling; synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), 2014 14th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Incheon

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCIT.2014.7011892

Filename

7011892