This paper presents an empirical discussion on the design and implementation of a power-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for in-body and on-body sensor networks. We analyze the performance of a beacon-enabled IEEE 802.15.4, PB-TDMA, and S-MAC protocols for on-body sensor networks. We further present a Traffic Based Wakeup Mechanism that utilizes the traffic patterns of the BAN Nodes (BNs) to accommodate the entire BSN traffic. To enable a logical connection between different BNs working on different frequency bands, a method called Bridging function is proposed. The Bridging function integrates all BNs working on different bands into a complete BSN.
@article{arxiv.0911.1544,
title = {Towards Power Efficient MAC Protocol for In-Body and On-Body Sensor Networks},
author = {Sana Ullah and Xizhi An and Kyung Sup Kwak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.1544},
year = {2018}
}
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11 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables,KES AMSTA 09, LNAI 5559, pp.335-345, Uppsala, June 2009. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0911.1507