Use of IEEE 802.15.4e for a cooperator-assisted wireless body area network

Author

Momoda, Miyu ; Hara, Satoshi

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Osaka City Univ., Osaka, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

2-4 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In a wearable wireless body area network (BAN), cooperative relaying, not self-retransmission, enables link connections between a central coordinator and nodes reliable since human postures do not change the states of the links in quite-short duration such as a retransmission interval. In this paper, we discuss MAC protocols suited for a cooperator-assisted BAN, and show two kinds of MAC designs such as a hybrid-TDMA/CSMA and a TDMA realizable on the IEEE 802.15.4e standard. We evaluate the packet error rate and power consumption by computer simulations where the stored received signal strength indication (RSSI) data are used, which were obtained from experiments with three subjects in a realistic scenario composed of a series of different actions and postures.

Keywords

Zigbee; biomedical communication; body area networks; carrier sense multiple access; time division multiple access; IEEE 802.15.4e standard; MAC protocols; computer simulations; cooperator-assisted wireless body area network; human postures; hybrid-TDMA-CSMA; packet error rate evaluation; power consumption evaluation; received signal strength indication data; wearable wireless body area network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), 2014 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Firenze

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISMICT.2014.6825202

Filename

6825202