Investigation and performance analysis of MAC protocols for WBAN networks

Bradai, Nourchene; Fourati, Lamia Chaari; Kamoun, Lotfı

doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2014.09.012

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“…Beacons are sent at beacon periods by the coordinator and the superframe structure is managed by the coordinator using beacon frames. Figure 6 shows the frame structure for IEEE 802.15.6 [21].…”

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Delay, Reliability, and Throughput Based QoS Profile: A MAC Layer Performance Optimization Mechanism for Biomedical Applications in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks

Akbar

Cang

2016

Journal of Sensors

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Recently, increasing demand for remote healthcare monitoring systems poses a specific set of Quality of Services (QoS) requirements to the MAC layer protocols and standards (IEEE 802.15.6, IEEE 802.15.4, etc.) of Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASNs). They mainly include time bounded services (latency), reliable data transmission, fair channel distribution, and specified data rates. The existing MAC protocols of WBASNs are lack of a specific set of QoS. To address this, the paper proposes a QoS profile named delay, reliability, and throughput (DRT). The QoS values computed through DRT profile provide maximum reliability of data transmission within an acceptable latency and data rates. The DRT is based on the carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) channel access mechanism and considers IEEE 802.15.4 (low-rate WPAN) and IEEE 802.15.6 (WBASN). Further, a detailed performance analysis of different frequency bands is done which are standardized for WBASNs, that is, 420 MHz, 868 MHz, 2.4 GHz, and so forth. Finally, a series of experiments are conducted to produce statistical results for DRT profile with respect to delay, reliability, and packet delivery ratio (PDR). The calculated results are verified through extensive simulations in the CASTALIA 3.2 framework using the OMNET++ network simulator.

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“…Using the above notations, we propose the modified equations from [21] below: ED = macFrameRetries * (BPC + frame + + Ack + SIFS ) ,…”

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Delay, Reliability, and Throughput Based QoS Profile: A MAC Layer Performance Optimization Mechanism for Biomedical Applications in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks

Akbar

Cang

2016

Journal of Sensors

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“…IEEE 802.15.6 standard defines three physical layers, which are Narrowband, Ultra wideband, and Human Body Communication layers [30][31][32]. The general MAC includes MAC header, MAC frame body, and frame check sequence (FCS) [33].…”

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Comprehensive analysis of the authentication methods in wireless body area networks

Màsdàrí

Ahmadzadeh

2016

Security Comm Networks

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WBANs are of the promising technologies, applied in the e-healthcare systems, for extracting and transferring critical medical data from patient body. In WBANs, the privacy and integrity of the patient's private medical data are very important, as a result, the WBANs communications and even communication with other E-Healthcare components should be authenticated and secured. This paper provides a complete survey and analysis of the various authentication schemes proposed in the literature to improve the WBANs security. Besides, it classifies the proposed authentication schemes based on the applied techniques for authentication and illustrates each scheme in detail. Furthermore, it highlights the advantages and limitations of the authentication schemes and presents a comprehensive comparison of their capabilities and features. Finally, the paper concludes with open issues and future research directions.

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“…9 Medium access control (MAC) protocols are another solution for QoS and energy-efficient challenges in WBAN. 10 Usually, MAC protocols are categorized under event-driven protocols, query-driven protocols, and continuous delivery-based protocols based on type of data. Energy-efficient, multi-constrained, QoS-aware MAC (eMC-MAC) protocol is designed to improve QoS by considering traffic prioritization.…”

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Designing insistence-aware medium access control protocol and energy conscious routing in quality-of-service-guaranteed wireless body area network

Abdu

Bayat

Uçan

2019

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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Wireless body area network is a type of wireless sensor network that enables efficient healthcare system. To minimize frequent sensor replacement due to resource restrictions, it is necessary to improve energy efficiency in wireless body area network. This article deals with energy efficiency and quality-of-service improvement together in novel wireless body area network architecture. A novel wireless body area network architecture is designed with dual sink nodes in order to minimize delay and energy consumption. A novel insistence-aware medium access control protocol which is aware of criticality of sensed data is presented in the proposed wireless body area network. Prior knowledge-based weighted routing algorithm is responsible to select optimal route for data transmission. In prior knowledge-based weighted routing, weight value is computed by considering significant metrics such as residual energy, link stability, distance, and delay in order to improve energy efficiency and quality of service in the network. Energy consumption is further minimized by incorporating graph-based sleep scheduling algorithm. In graph-based sleep scheduling, criticality of sensor node is also considered as major metric. In coordinator, split and map-based neural network classifier is involved to perform packet classification. After classification, packets are assigned to corresponding sink node according to packet type. Then, throughput and delay metrics are improved by frame aggregation process which is involved in sink node. Extensive simulation in OMNeT + + shows better performance in network lifetime, throughput, residual energy, dropped packets, and delay.

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Investigation and performance analysis of MAC protocols for WBAN networks

Cited by 44 publications

References 26 publications

Delay, Reliability, and Throughput Based QoS Profile: A MAC Layer Performance Optimization Mechanism for Biomedical Applications in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks

Delay, Reliability, and Throughput Based QoS Profile: A MAC Layer Performance Optimization Mechanism for Biomedical Applications in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks

Comprehensive analysis of the authentication methods in wireless body area networks

Designing insistence-aware medium access control protocol and energy conscious routing in quality-of-service-guaranteed wireless body area network

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