An energy efficient MAC protocol for WBAN through flexible frame structure

Author

Junsung Choi ; Jeong Gon Kim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Korea Polytech. Univ., Siheung, South Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

2-5 July 2013

Firstpage

476

Lastpage

480

Abstract

In WBAN environment, it is important to achieve energy efficiency of nodes implanting into human body. At the same time, a master also plays an important role in collecting data from nodes and controlling the nodes. By maintaining a master properly, any kinds of situation can be handled. Therefore, low power MAC protocol between a master and a node is highly required appropriately. A MAC protocol proposed in this paper aims to satisfy with these requirements and improve energy consumption rate that tends to grow high as the number of nodes increases. For the efficient and objective evaluation of the proposed MAC protocol, IEEE 802.15.6 MAC is used to compare with it and we show that the advantage of the proposed MAC meet our expectation.

Keywords

access protocols; biomedical communication; body area networks; energy conservation; energy consumption; telecommunication power management; IEEE 802.15.6 MAC; WBAN environment; energy consumption rate; energy efficiency; flexible frame structure; human body; low power MAC protocol; wireless body area network; Data communication; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Power demand; Synchronization; MAC Protocol; Master and Node; Superframe; Synchronization; WBAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2013 Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Da Nang

ISSN

2165-8528

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUFN.2013.6614866

Filename

6614866