An enhanced MAC protocol of IEEE 802.15.4 for wireless body area networks

Author

Lee, Cheolhyo ; Lee, Hyung-Soo ; Choi, Sangsung

Author_Institution

IT Convergence Technol. Res. Lab., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

Nov. 30 2010-Dec. 2 2010

Firstpage

916

Lastpage

919

Abstract

As the demand for personalized service increases, many researchers are interested in the wireless body area network (WBAN) including in-body and on-body communications. This paper provides an enhanced MAC framework based on IEEE 802.15.4 which may be one of the promising technologies for WBAN. The proposed scheme covers the functions of polling access, emergency transmission, and 2-hop network extension considering in-body and on-body communication environments. Also we set up test environment to operate the proposed MAC scheme.

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; body area networks; health care; 2-hop network extension function; IEEE 802.15.4 standard; emergency transmission function; enhanced MAC protocol; in-body communications; medium access control; on-body communications; polling access function; wireless body area networks; Body area networks; Data communication; Media Access Protocol; Medical services; Monitoring; Wireless communication; Zigbee; Healthcare; IEEE 802.15.4; MAC; WBAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Sciences and Convergence Information Technology (ICCIT), 2010 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8567-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-89-88678-30-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIT.2010.5711190

Filename

5711190