Title
MAC protocol in wireless body area network for mobile health: a survey and an architecture design
Abstract
AbstractWireless body area networks (WBANs) have become a leading solution in mobile health (mHealth). Typically, a WBAN consists of in-body or around-body sensor nodes for collecting data of physiological feature. For a WBAN to provide high throughput and low delay in an energy-efficient way, designing an efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol is of paramount importance because the MAC layer coordinates nodes' access to the shared wireless medium. To show the difference of MAC protocols between Energy-Harvesting wireless body area networks (EH-WBANs) and battery powered WBANs (BT-WBANs), this paper surveys the latest progresses in energy harvesting techniques and WBAN MAC protocol designs. Furthermore, a novel energy utility architecture is designed to enable sensor node lifetime operation in an EH-WBAN.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1155/2015/289404
Periodicals
Field
DocType
Volume
Sensor node,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Wireless,Computer science,Computer network,Energy harvesting,mHealth,Body area network,Access control,Throughput,Embedded system
Journal
2015
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1550-1329
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
21
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xin Qi1396.26
Kun Wang242556.96
Anpeng Huang315121.31
Haifeng Hu427060.38
Guangjie Han51890172.76