QoS architecture over WBANs for remote vital signs monitoring applications

Author

Bradai, Nourchene ; Ben Elhadj, Hadda ; Boudjit, Saadi ; Chaari, Lamia ; Kamoun, Lotfi

Author_Institution

Nat. Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

fYear

2015

fDate

9-12 Jan. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Nowadays, the deployment of wireless sensors on patients becomes more and more popular. This promotes researchers and application developers to focus on issues related to Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). Applications associated to WBANs include healthcare, personal assistance, and entertainment where sensor nodes collect information and issue them to a central data server. To meet the new requirements of WBANs, the design of an efficient MAC protocol to handle the diversity of data traffic becomes necessary. In this paper, a Priority MAC (PMAC) protocol is introduced where priority is given to life critical traffics. A QoS architecture containing PMAC protocol is proposed and implemented. Simulation results show that our proposed architecture overcomes other architectures based on IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.15.6 in terms of energy consumption and Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR).

Keywords

access protocols; body area networks; body sensor networks; health care; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; PDR; PMAC protocol; QoS architecture; WBAN; central data server; data traffic diversity; energy consumption; health care; packet delivery ratio; personal assistance; priority MAC protocol; remote vital sign monitoring application; wireless body area network; wireless sensors deployment; Admission control; Media Access Protocol; Monitoring; Sensors; Uplink; IEEE802.15.6; MAC; Priority MAC; QoS; WBANs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2015 12th Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

2331-9860

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6389-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2015.7157937

Filename

7157937