Experimental characterisation of an IEEE 802.15.6-based body area network

Authors:
Alfonso Panunzio;Marco Pietro Caria;Stefan Mijovic;Riccardo Cavallari;Chiara Buratti
Affiliations:
Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy;Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy;Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy;Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy;Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Venue:
BodyNets '13 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper presents the implementation of Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol based on the IEEE 802.15.6 standard on a hardware platform developed for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications. The CSMA/CA allows each node to detect an ongoing transmission and consequently wait until the channel is idle. A testing campaign has been conducted in order to evaluate the performance of the protocol in terms of packet loss rate, average packet delay and network throughput.