A Fair Contention Access Scheme for Low-Priority Traffic in Wireless Body Area Networks

A Fair Contention Access Scheme for Low-Priority Traffic in Wireless Body Area Networks

Recently, wireless body area networks (WBANs) have attracted significant consideration in ubiquitous healthcare. A number of medium access control (MAC) protocols, primarily derived from the superframe structure of the IEEE 802.15.4, have been proposed in literature. These MAC protocols aim to provi...

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Main Authors: Shagufta Henna, Muhammad Sajeel, Faisal Bashir, Muhammad Asfand-e-yar, Muhammad Tauqir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-08-01
Series:Sensors
Subjects:
WBAN
MAC superframe structure
low-priority traffic
priority-based MAC
PA-MAC
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/9/1931

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