TY - GEN
T1 - A novel TDMA-based MAC protocol for mobile in-vivo body sensor networks
AU - Lin, Lin
AU - Wong, Kai Juan
AU - Kumar, Arun
AU - Tan, Su Lim
AU - Phee, Soo Jay
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - With the development of sensor and wireless communication technologies, the concept of body sensor networks (BSNs) is proposed in recent years. BSNs are used to measure a large number of vital signs of the human body. Body sensor devices are typically powered by batteries and difficult to replace, so energy efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols, which can perform medium access mechanism with less energy are necessary. In this paper, we propose a novel energy saving MAC protocol for mobile BSNs based on time division multiple access (TDMA). An uplink, downlink asymmetric network architecture is introduced. A changeable access and sleep frame format as well as a routing algorithm are proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed MAC protocol achieves lower energy consumption than IEEE 802.15.6.
AB - With the development of sensor and wireless communication technologies, the concept of body sensor networks (BSNs) is proposed in recent years. BSNs are used to measure a large number of vital signs of the human body. Body sensor devices are typically powered by batteries and difficult to replace, so energy efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols, which can perform medium access mechanism with less energy are necessary. In this paper, we propose a novel energy saving MAC protocol for mobile BSNs based on time division multiple access (TDMA). An uplink, downlink asymmetric network architecture is introduced. A changeable access and sleep frame format as well as a routing algorithm are proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed MAC protocol achieves lower energy consumption than IEEE 802.15.6.
KW - Body sensor networks
KW - energy efficiency
KW - MAC
KW - TDMA
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U2 - 10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379420
DO - 10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379420
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84872008297
SN - 9781457720390
T3 - 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2012
SP - 273
EP - 278
BT - 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2012
Y2 - 10 October 2012 through 13 October 2012
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