Paper Info
Title
On-Body And Off-Body Transmit Power Control In Ieee 802.15.6 Scheduled Access Networks
Abstract
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have received much attention due to the possibility to be used in healthcare applications. For these applications, energy saving is a critical issue, as in many cases, batteries cannot be easily replaced. A transmit power control scheme, able to adapt to the variations of the wireless body channel, will allow consistent energy saving and longer battery life.In this paper we propose a transmit power control scheme suitable for IEEE 802.15.6 narrowband scheduled access networks, in which the transmission power is modulated frame by frame according to a run-time estimation of the channel propagation conditions. A simple and effective line search algorithm is proposed to estimate the channel quality based on the signal power received from the hub; in addition, an adaptive fade margin estimator is presented to determine an optimum margin based on the channel conditions. The approach allows tracking the highly variable propagation conditions due to the body mobility and the deployment of the sensors close to the human body. An experimental study in different test cases proves the effectiveness of the scheme in comparison with alternative solutions in the literature.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2014
2014 IEEE 25TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERSONAL, INDOOR, AND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION (PIMRC)
Wireless Body Area Network, Adaptive Transmit Power Control, IEEE 802.15.6, WBAN, ATPC
Field
DocType
Citations 
Power margin,Radio resource management,Fade margin,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Inter-Access Point Protocol,Computer science,Power control,Computer network,Real-time computing,Wireless sensor network,IEEE 802.15
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fabio Di Franco1303.26
Yu Ge217418.12
Ilenia Tinnirello367062.49