Title
Investigation and performance analysis of MAC protocols for WBAN networks.
Abstract
Recently, interest in the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) for patient monitoring has grown significantly. Therefore, very interesting researches are concentrating on enhancing patient monitoring systems that require quality of services provisioning at different levels and especially in communication between WBAN nodes. Therefore, the conception of an efficient MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol is required to satisfy the stringent monitoring system requirements. In this context, investigations related to the most efficient and recent WBAN MAC protocols are carried out taking in consideration the requirements of WBAN MAC protocols, and the MAC proposals classification is presented in this paper. Furthermore, to illustrate the performance of the recently drafted IEEE 802.15.6 standard, IEEE 802.15.4 (Zigbee MAC) and TMAC protocols in different working conditions, we have elaborated different scenarios to simulate these protocols using CASTALIA framework and OMNET++ network simulator. Besides that, we have also computed the end-to-end delay (E2E) in the worst case for those protocols.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.jnca.2014.09.012
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Wireless body area networks,WBAN,Medium access control,IEEE802.15.6,MAC
Journal
46
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
C
1084-8045
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
20
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nourchene Bradai1594.97
Lamia Chaari Fourati27824.90
Lotfi Kamoun318632.12