• DocumentCode
    2399434
  • Title

    A survey on power-efficient MAC protocols for wireless body area networks

  • Author

    Gopalan, Sai Anand ; Kim, Dong-Hyun ; Nah, Jae-Wook ; Park, Jong-Tae

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Kyungpook Nat. Univ., Daegu, South Korea
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    26-28 Oct. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1230
  • Lastpage
    1234
  • Abstract
    Design of power-efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols in wireless body area networks (WBANs) is important as it helps to prolong the network lifetime. This paper attempts to survey recent works of power efficient MAC protocols for WBANs and presents a comparison of the approaches pursued. We investigate a few MAC protocols devised for WBAN by highlighting their salient features. Finally, a number of open research issues are discussed.
  • Keywords
    access protocols; body area networks; network lifetime; power efficient MAC protocols; wireless body area networks; Adaptation model; Logic gates; Monitoring; Protocols; Synchronization; Time division multiple access; Energy-efficiency; MAC; Wireless Body Area Network (WBANs);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Broadband Network and Multimedia Technology (IC-BNMT), 2010 3rd IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6769-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICBNMT.2010.5705286
  • Filename
    5705286