MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Network for Mobile Health: A Survey and an Architecture Design
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have become a leading solution in mobile health (mHealth). Typically, a WBAN consists of in-body or around-body sensor nodes for collecting data of physiological feature. For a WBAN to provide high throughput and low delay in an energy-efficient way, designing an...
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| author | Xin Qi Kun Wang AnPeng Huang Haifeng Hu Guangjie Han |
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| description | Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have become a leading solution in mobile health (mHealth). Typically, a WBAN consists of in-body or around-body sensor nodes for collecting data of physiological feature. For a WBAN to provide high throughput and low delay in an energy-efficient way, designing an efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol is of paramount importance because the MAC layer coordinates nodes' access to the shared wireless medium. To show the difference of MAC protocols between Energy-Harvesting wireless body area networks (EH-WBANs) and battery powered WBANs (BT-WBANs), this paper surveys the latest progresses in energy harvesting techniques and WBAN MAC protocol designs. Furthermore, a novel energy utility architecture is designed to enable sensor node lifetime operation in an EH-WBAN. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-32e8f1bc6ab8406fa1dee0e40d581b5e2023-08-02T01:52:17ZengHindawi - SAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772015-10-011110.1155/2015/289404289404MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Network for Mobile Health: A Survey and an Architecture DesignXin Qi0Kun Wang1AnPeng Huang2Haifeng Hu3Guangjie Han4 Key Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China Key Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China mHealth Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems & Networks, PKU-UCLA Joint Research Institution, and Wireless Communications Laboratory, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Key Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou 213022, ChinaWireless body area networks (WBANs) have become a leading solution in mobile health (mHealth). Typically, a WBAN consists of in-body or around-body sensor nodes for collecting data of physiological feature. For a WBAN to provide high throughput and low delay in an energy-efficient way, designing an efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol is of paramount importance because the MAC layer coordinates nodes' access to the shared wireless medium. To show the difference of MAC protocols between Energy-Harvesting wireless body area networks (EH-WBANs) and battery powered WBANs (BT-WBANs), this paper surveys the latest progresses in energy harvesting techniques and WBAN MAC protocol designs. Furthermore, a novel energy utility architecture is designed to enable sensor node lifetime operation in an EH-WBAN.https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/289404 |
| spellingShingle | Xin Qi Kun Wang AnPeng Huang Haifeng Hu Guangjie Han MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Network for Mobile Health: A Survey and an Architecture Design International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks |
| title | MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Network for Mobile Health: A Survey and an Architecture Design |
| title_full | MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Network for Mobile Health: A Survey and an Architecture Design |
| title_fullStr | MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Network for Mobile Health: A Survey and an Architecture Design |
| title_full_unstemmed | MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Network for Mobile Health: A Survey and an Architecture Design |
| title_short | MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Network for Mobile Health: A Survey and an Architecture Design |
| title_sort | mac protocol in wireless body area network for mobile health a survey and an architecture design |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/289404 |
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