Energy-efficient low duty cycle MAC protocol fo wireless body area networks

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 915-925

  Marinković, Stevan Jovica ^a   Popovici, Emanuel Mihai ^a   Spagnol, Christian ^a   Faul, Stephen ^a   Marnane, William Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Body area networks (BANs); Energy efficiency; Medium access control (MAC) protocol; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ANALOG DEVICES; BATTERY LIFE PREDICTION; BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY AREA NETWORKS (BANS); DUTY-CYCLE CALCULATIONS; EFFECTIVE TIME; ENERGY EFFICIENT; LOW DUTY-CYCLES; MAC PROTOCOL; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) PROTOCOL; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; NO-IDLE; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; POWER CONSUMPTION; POWER CONSUMPTION MODEL; RELIABLE COMMUNICATION; REMOTE MONITORING; RF TRANSCEIVERS; SAMPLE RATE; SHORT BURSTS; SYNCHRONIZATION PROBLEM; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SPACE OPTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POWER SUPPLY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TELEMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEMETRY;

EID: 70449567214     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2033591     Document Type: Article

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