Title :
A survey on power-efficient MAC protocols for wireless body area networks
Author :
Gopalan, Sai Anand ; Kim, Dong-Hyun ; Nah, Jae-Wook ; Park, Jong-Tae
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Kyungpook Nat. Univ., Daegu, South Korea
Abstract :
Design of power-efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols in wireless body area networks (WBANs) is important as it helps to prolong the network lifetime. This paper attempts to survey recent works of power efficient MAC protocols for WBANs and presents a comparison of the approaches pursued. We investigate a few MAC protocols devised for WBAN by highlighting their salient features. Finally, a number of open research issues are discussed.
Keywords :
access protocols; body area networks; network lifetime; power efficient MAC protocols; wireless body area networks; Adaptation model; Logic gates; Monitoring; Protocols; Synchronization; Time division multiple access; Energy-efficiency; MAC; Wireless Body Area Network (WBANs);
Conference_Titel :
Broadband Network and Multimedia Technology (IC-BNMT), 2010 3rd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6769-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICBNMT.2010.5705286
