Title
Experimental characterisation of energy consumption in Body Area Networks
Abstract
This paper addresses the issue of power consumption in the field of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). It presents a methodology used to perform real-time measurements of the energy consumption of a deployed WBAN, and describes how to design Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols, able to satisfy different application requirements in terms of lifetime, but also of latency. More precisely we analyse the performance of two MAC protocols, one based on low power listening and the other one based on the IEEE 802.15.6 standard, and we discuss their applicability to two specific scenarios. The evaluation is performed through experiments carried out on a hardware platform intended for WBANs, while the application scenarios are inspired by those defined in the FP7 EC Project, WiserBAN. Results obtained allow us to draw conclusions and considerations regarding energy consumption in realistic scenarios and provide significant inputs to WBAN designers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/WF-IoT.2015.7389107
WF-IoT
Keywords
Field
DocType
energy consumption,power consumption,wireless body area networks,WBAN,real-time measurements,medium access control,MAC protocols,IEEE 802.15.6 standard,hardware platform
Wireless,Latency (engineering),Computer science,Active listening,Computer network,Access control,Energy consumption,Power consumption
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan Mijovic194.14
Riccardo Cavallari294.08
Chiara Buratti343043.39