A traffic-adaptive MAC protocol for WBAN

Author

Kwak, Kyung Sup ; Ullah, Sana

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of IT & Telecommun. Eng., Inha Univ., Incheon, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

6-10 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1286

Lastpage

1289

Abstract

A Traffic-adaptive MAC protocol (TaMAC) for a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is presented in this paper. The idle listening and overhearing problems are solved by exploiting the traffic information of the nodes. The protocol is supported by a traffic-based wakeup mechanism and a wakeup radio mechanism that are used to accommodate normal, emergency, and on-demand traffic in a reliable manner. Analytical expressions are derived to analyze and compare the performance of the TaMAC protocol with the WiseMAC, SMAC, and the beacon-enabled IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocols. Results derived from the analytical expressions are validated by simulation results. It is shown that the TaMAC protocol outperforms all other protocols in terms of power consumption and delay.

Keywords

access protocols; body area networks; telecommunication traffic; SMAC; TaMAC protocol; WBAN; WiseMAC; beacon-enabled IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocols; idle listening; on-demand traffic; overhearing problem; traffic based wakeup mechanism; traffic information; traffic-adaptive MAC protocol; wakeup radio mechanism; wireless body area network; MAC; TDMA; WBAN; low-power; traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

GLOBECOM Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Miami, FL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8863-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOMW.2010.5700145

Filename

5700145