Demonstrating on-demand listening and data forwarding in wireless body area networks

Author

Nabi, Majid ; Geilen, Marc ; Basten, Twan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2012

fDate

18-21 June 2012

Firstpage

82

Lastpage

84

Abstract

Adaptation of the network architecture through on-demand data forwarding is an efficient mechanism to provide robustness against long outages in WBANs. We developed an experimental testbed that provides online observation of the network behavior for different data propagation approaches in WBANs. The demonstration shows how different approaches deal with special challenges in WBANs such as low quality of wireless links, topology variations due to posture changes, and mobility. Moreover, sensor nodes can be configured online to investigate how different protocols react in various situations.

Keywords

body area networks; mobility management (mobile radio); telecommunication network topology; data forwarding; data propagation approach; mobility; on-demand listening; online observation; protocols; sensor nodes; topology variations; wireless body area networks; wireless links; Ad hoc networks; Logic gates; Protocols; Robustness; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2012 9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

ISSN

2155-5486

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1904-1

Electronic_ISBN

2155-5486

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.2012.6275849

Filename

6275849