Energy harvesting aware hybrid MAC protocol for WBANs

Author

Ibarra, Ernesto ; Antonopoulos, Antonios ; Kartsakli, Elli ; Verikoukis, Christos

Author_Institution

Univ. of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2013

fDate

9-12 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

120

Lastpage

124

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a hybrid polling Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol with Human Energy Harvesting capabilities, called HEH-BMAC, designed for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). The proposed protocol uses a dynamic schedule algorithm to combine User Identification polling (ID) and Probabilistic Contention (PC) random access, adapting the network operation to the random, time-varying nature of the human energy harvesting sources. HEH-BMAC offers different levels of node priorities (high and normal), energy-awareness and flexibility. Extensive simulations have been conducted in order to evaluate the energy efficiency and throughput of our scheme compared to IEEE 802.15.6 standard in energy harvesting conditions.

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; body area networks; energy harvesting; telecommunication power supplies; telecommunication standards; HEH-BMAC; IEEE 802.15.6 standard; MAC protocol; WBAN; dynamic schedule algorithm; human energy harvesting; medium access control protocol; probabilistic contention random access; user identification polling; wireless body area networks; Dynamic scheduling; Energy efficiency; Heuristic algorithms; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Throughput; 802.15.6; Energy efficiency; Energy harvesting; Medium Access Control (MAC);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Health Networking, Applications & Services (Healthcom), 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5800-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720651

Filename

6720651