IEEE 802.15.4 MAC with GTS transmission for heterogeneous devices with application to wheelchair body-area sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 767-777

  Shrestha, Bharat ^a   Hossain, Ekram ^a   Camorlinga, Sergio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b TRLabs   (Canada)

Author keywords

Guaranteed time slot (GTS) allocation; IEEE 802.15.4; Markov chain model; slotted carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA CA); wheelchair body area sensor network (BASN)

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE SERVICE TIME; BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH COLLISION AVOIDANCES; DISCRETE TIME MARKOV CHAINS; GUARANTEED TIME SLOTS; HETEROGENEOUS DEVICES; HETEROGENEOUS TRAFFIC; IEEE 802.15.4; MARKOV CHAIN MODELS; MARKOV MODEL; NETWORK SCENARIO; NETWORK SIMULATORS; NON-SATURATED CONDITIONS; SLOTTED CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH COLLISION AVOIDANCE (CSMA/CA); UTILIZATION FACTOR; WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS; WIRELESS PROPAGATION;

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; STANDARDS; WHEELCHAIRS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WHEELCHAIR;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 80052556835     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2129522     Document Type: Article

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