• DocumentCode
    3749244
  • Title

    Performance evaluation of cooperative communication in WBANs with maximal ratio combining

  • Author

    Princy Maria Paul;A.V. Babu

  • Author_Institution
    Department of ECE, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala, India
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    627
  • Lastpage
    632
  • Abstract
    This paper investigates the energy efficiency and reliability of WBANs. Models for packet error rate and energy efficiency of both direct and cooperative transmission schemes with MRC at the destination node are presented. Analytical and simulation works are carried out for both on-body and in-body scenarios of WBANs. Results prove that cooperative transmission scheme fares better than direct communication scheme with respect to achievable hop length, energy efficiency and reliability.
  • Keywords
    "Relays","Cooperative communication","Body area networks","Diversity reception","Reliability","Analytical models"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computing and Network Communications (CoCoNet), 2015 International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CoCoNet.2015.7411254
  • Filename
    7411254
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3749244