A new approach to channel access scheduling for Ad Hoc networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Bluetooth dynamic scheduling and interference mitigation
Mobile Networks and Applications
An Inter-Piconet Scheduling Algorithm for Bluetooth Scatternets
AICT-ICIW '06 Proceedings of the Advanced Int'l Conference on Telecommunications and Int'l Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services
FP/EDF versus FP/FIFO Local Scheduling and Probabilistic QoS Guarantees in a Bluetooth Piconet
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Novel QoS scheduling and energy-saving MAC protocol for body sensor networks optimization
BodyNets '08 Proceedings of the ICST 3rd international conference on Body area networks
QoS Issues with Focus on Wireless Body Area Networks
ICCIT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Third International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology - Volume 01
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on wireless and pervasive communications for healthcare
Multi-domain WLAN load balancing in WLAN/WPAN interference environments
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Energy-efficient low duty cycle MAC protocol for wireless body area networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on body sensor networks
Applications, challenges, and prospective in emerging body area networking technologies
IEEE Wireless Communications
Employing IEEE 802.15.4 for Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks
AINA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
CCNC'10 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference
Quality-of-Service in BAN: PER Reduction and its Trade-Offs
BSN '10 Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A Secure RFID-based WBAN for Healthcare Applications
Journal of Medical Systems
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In this study, Random Contention-based Resource Allocation (RACOON) medium access control (MAC) protocol is proposed to support the quality of service (QoS) for multi-user mobile wireless body area networks (WBANs). Different from existing QoS designs that focus on a single WBAN, a multiuser WBAN QoS should further consider both inter-WBAN interference and inter-WBAN priorities. Similar problems have been studied in both overlapped wireless local area networks (WLANs) and Bluetooth piconets that need QoS supports. However, these solutions are designed for non-medical transmissions that do not consider any priority scheme for medical applications. Most importantly, these studies focus on only static or low mobility networks. Network mobility of WBANs will introduce unnecessary inter-network collisions and energy waste, which are not considered by these solutions. The proposed multiuser-QoS protocol, RACOON, simultaneously satisfies the inter WBAN QoS requirements and overcomes the performance degradation caused by WBAN mobility. Simulation results verify that RACOON provides better latency and energy control, as compared with WBAN QoS protocols without considering the inter-WBAN requirements.