Performance Analysis of ZigBee Technology for Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks

Cao, Huasong; Liang, Xuedong; Balasingham, Ilangko; Leung, Victor C. M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11723-7_51

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“…It is also considered as a candidate MAC for BAN. Authors of [16][17][18] have proposed and evaluated ZigBee for BAN.…”

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A power efficient MAC protocol for wireless body area networks

Ameen

Ullah

Chowdhury

et al. 2012

J Wireless Com Network

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Applications of wearable and implanted wireless sensor devices are hot research area. A specialized field called the body area networks (BAN) has emerged to support this area. Managing and controlling such a network is a challenging task. An efficient media access control (MAC) protocol to handle proper management of media access can considerably improve the performance of such a network. Power consumption and delay are major concerns for MAC protocols in a BAN. Low cost wakeup radio module attached with sensor devices can help reduce power consumption and prolong the network lifetime by reducing idle state power consumption and increasing sleep time of a BAN node. In this article, we propose a new MAC protocol for BAN using out of band (on-demand) wakeup radio through a centralized and coordinated external wakeup mechanism. We have compared our method against some existing MAC protocols. Our method is found to be efficient in terms of power consumption and delay.

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“…It is also considered as a candidate MAC for BAN. Authors of [16][17][18] have proposed and evaluated ZigBee for BAN.…”

Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%