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Distributed medium access control (MAC) protocols are essential for the proliferation of low cost, decentralized wireless local area networks (WLANs). Most MAC protocols are designed with the presumption that nodes comply with prescribed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Khoa Tran Phan , Jaeok Park , Mihaela van der Schaar

Now days, interests in the application of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) have grown considerably. A number of tiny wireless sensors, strategically placed on the human body, create a wireless body area network that can monitor various…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-05 Saeid Bahanfar , Ladan Darougaran , Helia Kousha , Shahram Babaie

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) enable continuous monitoring of physiological signals for applications ranging from chronic disease management to emergency response. Recent advances in 6G communications, post-quantum cryptography, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Mohammad Jalili Torkamani , Negin Mahmoudi , Kiana Kiashemshaki

Distributed medium access control (MAC) protocols are proposed for wireless networks assuming that one-hop peers can periodically exchange a small amount of state information. Each station maintains a state and makes state transitions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ka Hung Hui , Dongning Guo , Randall A. Berry

The increasing penetration of wearable and implantable devices necessitates energy-efficient and robust ways of connecting them to each other and to the cloud. However, the wireless channel around the human body poses unique challenges such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Ali Moin , Arno Thielens , Alvaro Araujo , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Jan M. Rabaey

The last few decades have seen considerable research progress in microelectronics and integrated circuits, system-on-chip design, wireless communication, and sensor technology. This progress has enabled the seamless integration of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Sana Ullah , Pervez Khan , Young-Woo Choi , Hyung-Soo Lee , Kyung Sup Kwak

Wireless Sensor Networks are basically used for gathering information needed by smart environments but they are particularly useful in unattended situations where terrain, climate and other environmental constraints may hinder in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-05-24 Sami Halawani , Abdul Waheed Khan

Efficient management of heterogeneous traffic with varying priorities is critical in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). The priority mechanisms embedded in Media Access Control (MAC) schemes largely govern the performance of WBAN in terms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Shama Sidiqui , Indrakshi Dey

Recent advances in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology, integrated circuits, and wireless communication have allowed the realization of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). WBANs promise unobtrusive ambulatory health…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-08-04 Sana Ullah , Pervez Khan , Niamat Ullah , Shahnaz Saleem , Henry Higgins , Kyung Sup Kwak

In this paper, we study how to determine concurrent transmissions and the transmission power level of each link to maximize spectrum efficiency and minimize energy consumption in a wireless ad hoc network. The optimal joint transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Kamal Rahimi Malekshan , Weihua Zhuang

Energy conservation has been an important area of interest in Wireless Sensor networks (WSNs). Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols play an important role in energy conservation. In this paper, we describe CSMA based MAC protocols for WSN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Himanshu singh , Bhaskar Biswas

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have gained significant attention due to their applications in healthcare monitoring, sports, military communication, and remote patient care. These networks consist of wearable or implanted sensors that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Abdollah Rahimi , Mehdi Jafari Shahbazzadeh , Amid Khatibi

Wireless communications at the chip scale emerge as a interesting complement to traditional wire-based approaches thanks to their low latency, inherent broadcast nature, and capacity to bypass pin constraints. However, as current trends…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Bernat Ollé , Pau Talarn , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Filip Lemic , Eduard Alarcón , Sergi Abadal

In this work, we propose a reliable, power efficient and high throughput routing protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). We use multi-hop topology to achieve minimum energy consumption and longer network lifetime. We propose a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Q. Nadeem , N. Javaid , S. N. Mohammad , M. Y. Khan , S. Sarfraz , M. Gull

This paper presents comparison of Access Techniques used in Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). Comparison is performed between Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 I. Israr , M. M. Yaqoob , N. Javaid , U. Qasim , Z. A. Khan

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) has emerged as a key technology to provide real-time health monitoring of a patient and diagnose many life threatening diseases. WBAN operates in close vicinity to, on, or inside a human body and supports…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Kyung Sup Kwak , Sana Ullah , Niamat Ullah

Control/command processes require a transmission system with some characteristics like high reliability, low latency and strong guarantees on messages delivery. Concerning wire networks, field buses technologies like FIP offer this kind of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Adrien Van Den Bossche , Thierry Val , Eric Campo

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is the collection of many small size low cost, battery operated sensor nodes distributed over the targeted region to collect the information of interest. We can say these networks can be a fruitful solution…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Rahul R Lanjewar , D S Adane

In sensor networks communication by broadcast methods involves many hazards, especially collision. Several MAC layer protocols have been proposed to resolve the problem of collision namely ARBP, where the best achieved success rate is 90%.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Abhishek Samanta , Dripto Bakshi

Wireless interconnection has emerged as an energy efficient solution to the challenges of multi-hop communication over the wireline paths in conventional Networks-on-Chips (NoCs). However, to ensure the full benefits of this novel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Naseef Mansoor , Abhishek Vashist , M Meraj Ahmed , Md Shahriar Shamim , Syed Ashraf Mamun , Amlan Ganguly