scholarly journals A Comprehensive Survey of MAC Protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Rahim ◽  
N. Javaid ◽  
M. Aslam ◽  
Z. Rahman ◽  
U. Qasim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Mac Protocols ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Comprehensive Survey

scholarly journals A Comprehensive Survey of Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Aisha Bouani ◽  
Yann Ben Maissa ◽  
Rachid Saadane ◽  
Ahmed Hammouch ◽  
Ahmed Tamtaoui
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Medium Access Control ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Mac Protocols ◽  
Medium Access Control Protocols ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Control Protocols

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have emerged as a promising technology for health monitoring due to their high utility and important role in improving human health. WBANs consist of a number of small battery-operated biomedical sensor nodes placed on the body or implanted, which are used to monitor and transmit important parameters such as blood pressure, electrocardiogram (ECG), and electroencephalogram (EEG). WBANs have strict requirements on energy efficiency and reliability during data collection and transmission. The most appropriate layer to address these requirements is the MAC layer. Medium access control protocols play an essential role in controlling the operation of radio transceivers and significantly affect the power consumption of the whole network. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the most relevant and recent MAC protocols developed for WBANs. We discuss design requirements of a good MAC protocol for WBANs. We further review the different channel access mechanisms for WBANs. Then, we investigate the existing designed MAC protocols for WBANs with a focus on their features along with their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, we summarize the results of this work and draw conclusions.

Wireless body area networks: a comprehensive survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahae Abidi ◽  
Abdelillah Jilbab ◽  
El Haziti Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Comprehensive Survey

Wireless Body Area Networks Routing Protocols: A Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalid Awan ◽  
Kashif Naseer Qureshi ◽  
Mehwish Mehwish
Keyword(s):  
Routing Protocols ◽  
Wireless Sensors ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Health Situation

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are designed for monitoring the patient’s conditions and assist them in critical health situation. Tiny size wireless sensors sense the data related to patient health. Further, the sensed data sends to base station for further process. The base station sends the data to the nearest sink node or to the nearest medical center or hospital. In order to complete this entire process, wireless sensors need efficient routing without any error or delay. The routing protocols have been suffered with various challenges and issues which are related to the routing and energy issues. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of important existing routing protocols for WBANs. Paper also discusses the protocols strengths, limitations with their critical analysis.

scholarly journals Power Saving MAC Protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kheesheshta Ramgoolam ◽  
Vandana Bassoo
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Mac Protocols ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Traffic Scenario ◽  
Low Traffic ◽  
Better Than

Abstract Two important criteria of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are low power consumption and delay. These criteria can be met by designing efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols. In this paper, two TDMA-based MAC protocols are proposed. The first protocol, TM-MAC makes use of only a main radio. The second proposed protocol, TWM-MAC makes use of a WUR alongside the main radio. The two proposed protocols are compared with different categories of standard MAC protocols and it is shown that they outperform the standard ones by improving the power consumption and delay. The TWM-MAC consumes 55% less power consumption than the Scheduled Channel Polling MAC (SCP-MAC) protocol for a high traffic scenario on the high-rate platform while the TM-MAC consumes 85% less power consumption than the SCP-MAC. For a low traffic scenario, the TWM-MAC performs 53.5% better than the SCP-MAC protocol and 77.5% better than the Very Low Power MAC (VLPM) protocol on the high and low-rate platforms respectively. An improvement in delay was observed with the TWM-MAC protocol for high traffic situations. The TWM-MAC protocol surpasses the VLPM protocol by 81.1% in terms of latency for a high traffic scenario and 3.2% for a low traffic scenario.

MAC Protocols in Wireless Body Area Networks: A Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 140 (9) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Reema Goyal ◽  
R.B. Patel ◽  
H.S. Bhadauria ◽  
Devendra Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Mac Protocols ◽  
Body Area
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