Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs
In this paper, we introduce a cooperative medium access control (MAC) protocol, named cooperative energy harvesting (CEH)-MAC, that adapts its operation to the energy harvesting (EH) conditions in wireless body area networks (WBANs). In particular, the proposed protocol exploits the EH information i...
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| author | Volker Esteves Angelos Antonopoulos Elli Kartsakli Manel Puig-Vidal Pere Miribel-Català Christos Verikoukis |
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| description | In this paper, we introduce a cooperative medium access control (MAC) protocol, named cooperative energy harvesting (CEH)-MAC, that adapts its operation to the energy harvesting (EH) conditions in wireless body area networks (WBANs). In particular, the proposed protocol exploits the EH information in order to set an idle time that allows the relay nodes to charge their batteries and complete the cooperation phase successfully. Extensive simulations have shown that CEH-MAC significantly improves the network performance in terms of throughput, delay and energy efficiency compared to the cooperative operation of the baseline IEEE 802.15.6 standard. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-45ecd72262564dd5a10056a7ab7f513c2022-12-22T02:07:19ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202015-05-01156126351265010.3390/s150612635s150612635Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANsVolker Esteves0Angelos Antonopoulos1Elli Kartsakli2Manel Puig-Vidal3Pere Miribel-Català4Christos Verikoukis5Department of Electronics, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona 08028, SpainDepartment of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC—BarcelonaTECH), C./ Esteve Terradas 7, C4-202P, Castelldefels 08860, SpainDepartment of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC—BarcelonaTECH), C./ Esteve Terradas 7, C4-202P, Castelldefels 08860, SpainDepartment of Electronics, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona 08028, SpainDepartment of Electronics, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona 08028, SpainDepartment of Electronics, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona 08028, SpainIn this paper, we introduce a cooperative medium access control (MAC) protocol, named cooperative energy harvesting (CEH)-MAC, that adapts its operation to the energy harvesting (EH) conditions in wireless body area networks (WBANs). In particular, the proposed protocol exploits the EH information in order to set an idle time that allows the relay nodes to charge their batteries and complete the cooperation phase successfully. Extensive simulations have shown that CEH-MAC significantly improves the network performance in terms of throughput, delay and energy efficiency compared to the cooperative operation of the baseline IEEE 802.15.6 standard.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/6/12635MAC protocol designcooperative communicationsenergy harvestingWBANs |
| spellingShingle | Volker Esteves Angelos Antonopoulos Elli Kartsakli Manel Puig-Vidal Pere Miribel-Català Christos Verikoukis Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs Sensors MAC protocol design cooperative communications energy harvesting WBANs |
| title | Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs |
| title_full | Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs |
| title_fullStr | Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs |
| title_short | Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs |
| title_sort | cooperative energy harvesting adaptive mac protocol for wbans |
| topic | MAC protocol design cooperative communications energy harvesting WBANs |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/6/12635 |
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