Towards Power Efficient MAC Protocol for In-Body and On-Body Sensor Networks

Authors:
Sana Ullah;Xizhi An;Kyung Sup Kwak
Affiliations:
Graduate School of Telecommunication Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea 402-751;Graduate School of Telecommunication Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea 402-751;Graduate School of Telecommunication Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea 402-751
Venue:
KES-AMSTA '09 Proceedings of the Third KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper presents an empirical discussion on the design and implementation of a power-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for in-body and on-body sensor networks. We analyze the performance of a beacon-enabled IEEE 802.15.4, PB-TDMA, and S-MAC protocols for on-body sensor networks. We further present a Traffic Based Wakeup Mechanism that utilizes the traffic patterns of the BAN Nodes (BNs) to accommodate the entire BSN traffic. To enable a logical connection between different BNs working on different frequency bands, a method called Bridging function is proposed. The Bridging function integrates all BNs working on different bands into a complete BSN.