TY - GEN
T1 - Energy-efficient multi-hop transmission in body area networks
AU - Kwon, Hyung Tae
AU - Lee, Su Kyoung
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Compared toWireless Sensor Network (WSN), Body Area Network (BAN) has its own unique requirements and further, it is more difficult to equip the medical sensors with replaceable batteries as this reduces the comport of the person wearing them. In this respect, a lot of efforts are being made by 802.15.6 WG to standardize a more efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) for BAN. Thus, in this paper, we propose an energy-efficient MAC scheme designed for BAN. The main idea is to allow for body sensors to transmit their data to the coordinator using multi-hop transmission in the BAN with the aim to maximize the lifetime of BAN. The performance of the proposed MAC scheme is evaluated by computer simulations in terms of lifetime and resource utilization.
AB - Compared toWireless Sensor Network (WSN), Body Area Network (BAN) has its own unique requirements and further, it is more difficult to equip the medical sensors with replaceable batteries as this reduces the comport of the person wearing them. In this respect, a lot of efforts are being made by 802.15.6 WG to standardize a more efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) for BAN. Thus, in this paper, we propose an energy-efficient MAC scheme designed for BAN. The main idea is to allow for body sensors to transmit their data to the coordinator using multi-hop transmission in the BAN with the aim to maximize the lifetime of BAN. The performance of the proposed MAC scheme is evaluated by computer simulations in terms of lifetime and resource utilization.
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U2 - 10.1109/PIMRC.2009.5450228
DO - 10.1109/PIMRC.2009.5450228
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77952789026
SN - 9781424451234
T3 - IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC
SP - 2142
EP - 2146
BT - 2009 IEEE 20th Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Symposium, PIMRC 2009
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2009 IEEE 20th Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Symposium, PIMRC 2009
Y2 - 13 September 2009 through 16 September 2009
ER -