A Proposal for Network Coding with the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard

We examine the Medium Access Control sublayer of the IEEE 802.15.6 Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) standard, and propose minor modifications to the standard so that linear random network coding can be included to help improve energy efficiency and throughput of WBANs compatible with the standard....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shi, Xiaomeng, Medard, Muriel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100964
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4059-407X