Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocols for Ultra-Wideband (UWB)-Based Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN)

Thotahewa, Kasun Maduranga Silva; Redouté, Jean-Michel; Yuce, Mehmet Rasit

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-8896-5_7

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“…In the literature, there are various surveys on WBANs [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. However, the majority of these surveys have focused on the applications [16,17], technologies [18][19][20], standards [21], and design issues [17,[22][23][24] of WBANs rather than evaluating various research efforts made towards achieving efficient MAC protocols for WBANs, which is the main objective of this survey.…”

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A Comprehensive Survey of Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks

Bouani

Maissa

Saadane

et al. 2021

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have emerged as a promising technology for health monitoring due to their high utility and important role in improving human health. WBANs consist of a number of small battery-operated biomedical sensor nodes placed on the body or implanted, which are used to monitor and transmit important parameters such as blood pressure, electrocardiogram (ECG), and electroencephalogram (EEG). WBANs have strict requirements on energy efficiency and reliability during data collection and transmission. The most appropriate layer to address these requirements is the MAC layer. Medium access control protocols play an essential role in controlling the operation of radio transceivers and significantly affect the power consumption of the whole network. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the most relevant and recent MAC protocols developed for WBANs. We discuss design requirements of a good MAC protocol for WBANs. We further review the different channel access mechanisms for WBANs. Then, we investigate the existing designed MAC protocols for WBANs with a focus on their features along with their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, we summarize the results of this work and draw conclusions.

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A Comprehensive Survey of Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks

Bouani

Maissa

Saadane

et al. 2021

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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MAC Protocols for UWB-Based WBAN Applications

Thotahewa

Redouté

Yuce

2014

Ultra Wideband Wireless Body Area Networks

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MAC Protocols

Xia

Rahim

2015

SpringerBriefs in Computer Science

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Resource efficiency is one of the most important factors that should be considered when developing a MAC protocol for CPS like WBAN. This chapter presents the critical literature review of different approaches used to design MAC protocols to minimize energy consumption. Control packet overhead of communication, idle listening of nodes to receive expected data packets, overhearing, and collision of data packets are the major sources of energy dissipation in WBANs. A versatile MAC protocol should have the capabilities to minimize energy dissipation in aforementioned situations. An introduction of typical MAC protocols (which are not based on IEEE 802.15.4) for WBAN is presented in this chapter with focus on their strengths and weaknesses.

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Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocols for Ultra-Wideband (UWB)-Based Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN)

Cited by 6 publications

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A Comprehensive Survey of Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks

A Comprehensive Survey of Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks

MAC Protocols for UWB-Based WBAN Applications

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