On improving the saturation performance of IEEE802.15.6-based MAC protocols in Wireless Body Area Networks

2017 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2017

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 1233-1238

  Sadra, Sarvin ^a   Abolhasan, Mehran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body Area Networks; Energy Efficiency; IEEE 802.15.4; IEEE 802.15.6; Low Power; Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol; Sensor; WBAN

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; DIGITAL DEVICES; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MOBILE COMPUTING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SENSORS; STANDARDS; WEARABLE SENSORS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; IEEE 802.15.4; IEEE 802.15.6; LOW POWER; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; WBAN;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 85027883572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWCMC.2017.7986461     Document Type: Conference Paper

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