Paper Info
Title
Energy-efficient MAC protocols for wireless body area networks: Survey.
Abstract
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of key energy-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). At the outset, we outline the crucial attributes of a good MAC protocol for WBAN. Several sources that contribute to the energy inefficiency of WBAN are identified, and features of the various MAC protocols qualitatively compared. Then, we further investigate some representative TDMA-based energy-efficient MAC protocols for WBAN by emphasizing their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, we conclude with a number of open research issues with regard to WBAN MAC layer.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICUMT.2010.5676554
CHINA COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Medium Access Control (MAC),Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs),energy-efficiency
Open research,Synchronization,Wireless,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Inefficiency,Computer network,Bandwidth (signal processing),Access control,Time division multiple access,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
5
1673-5447
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
27
1.24
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sai Anand Gopalan1271.24
Jong-Tae Park214434.45