Performance analysis of IEEE 802.15.6 MAC protocol based on battery characteristics under saturation and error-prone channel

Author

Liangfang Xu ; Falin Liu ; Chengfu Yi ; Tingting Guan ; Ye Li

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Electromagn. Space Inf., Hefei, China

fYear

2014

fDate

19-23 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

2237

Lastpage

2242

Abstract

Energy consumption is always a key issue for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) composed by sensor nodes. In this paper, with the consideration of the battery characteristics, we analyze the performance indexes of IEEE 802.15.6 MAC protocol under saturation and error-prone channel, such as delay, throughput, and charge consumption. The MATALB and OPnet simulation results show that, after using the recovery effect of battery, the charge can be saved by up to 13%, in comparison to the case without the consideration of battery recovery effect. In addition, the OPnet simulation results accord well with the MATLAB results which are corresponding to the theoretical analysis.

Keywords

access protocols; body area networks; performance index; personal area networks; telecommunication power management; wireless channels; IEEE 802.15.6 MAC protocol performance index analysis; MATALB simulation; OPnet simulation; WBAN sensor node; battery characteristics; battery recovery effect; charge consumption; energy consumption; error-prone channel; medium access control protocol; saturation channel; wireless body area network; Abstracts; Analytical models; Batteries; Delays; MATLAB; Throughput; MAC protocol; WBAN; battery characteristics; charge consumption; recovery effect;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing (ICSP), 2014 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

ISSN

2164-5221

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2188-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOSP.2014.7015392

Filename

7015392