Study of medium access mechanisms under IEEE 802.15.6 standard

Author

Bradai, Nourchène ; Belhaj, Samia ; Chaari, Lamia ; Kamoun, Lotfi

Author_Institution

Lab. of Electron. & Inf. Technol. (LETI), Univ. of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

fYear

2011

fDate

26-28 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is paving the way for the deployment of a variety of medical and non-medical applications. This class of networks has emerged in the recent years and much of the research in the area of body area networks has focused on issues related to ultra low-power processing and communication, lightweight wireless sensor nodes in order to control the human body functions and healthcare monitoring systems. The task Group 6 of IEEE 802.15.6 is formed to address specific needs of body area networks. It defines a medium access protocol control (MAC) layer that supports three physical layers namely NarrowBand (NB), Ultra WideBand (UWB), and Human Body Communications (HBC) layers. In this paper, we present major MAC requirements of WBAN, we overview various proposed MAC protocols for WBAN and we highlight the MAC protocol concepts of IEEE 802.15.6.

Keywords

access protocols; body area networks; radio networks; ultra wideband communication; IEEE 802.15.6 standard; MAC protocols; WBAN; human body communications; medium access mechanisms; narrowband; ultra wideband; wireless body area network; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Peer to peer computing; Quality of service; Resource management; Topology; IEEE802.15.6; MAC; WBAN; Wireless Body Area Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC), 2011 4th Joint IFIP

Conference_Location

Toulouse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1192-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1191-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WMNC.2011.6097231

Filename

6097231