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Examination of Energy Efficiency for MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Networks

by Sidra Hassan, M. Mateen Yaqoob
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 108 - Number 20
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Sidra Hassan, M. Mateen Yaqoob
10.5120/19026-0553

Sidra Hassan, M. Mateen Yaqoob . Examination of Energy Efficiency for MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Networks. International Journal of Computer Applications. 108, 20 ( December 2014), 9-13. DOI=10.5120/19026-0553

@article{ 10.5120/19026-0553,
author = { Sidra Hassan, M. Mateen Yaqoob },
title = { Examination of Energy Efficiency for MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Networks },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { December 2014 },
volume = { 108 },
number = { 20 },
month = { December },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 9-13 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume108/number20/19026-0553/ },
doi = { 10.5120/19026-0553 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A M. Mateen Yaqoob
%T Examination of Energy Efficiency for MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Networks
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 108
%N 20
%P 9-13
%D 2014
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Wireless body area networks are widely used for applications such as health care system, where wireless sensors (nodes) monitor the parameter(s) of interest. Sensors play a critical role in many sensor network applications. Mac layer operates on non-beacon and beacon enabled mode. The IEEE 802. 15. 4 standard provide two modes of connections: beacon enabled mode and non-offer transmission determinism. The non-beacon enabled mode does not suggest any assurance on traffic determinism. In this network an unslotted CSMA/CA channel access method is used beacon mode. In beacon-enabled networks, the extraordinary network nodes called ZigBee Routers transmit episodic beacons to verify their existence to other network nodes i. e. it can. Opposing to the non-beacon enabled mode, the beacon analyze delay, packet loss ratio, network life time, throughput of the wireless body area network. There will be three states nodes, sleep, awake, idle, which will be used to do transmission of data packets. AR-MAC protocol is based upon TDMA technique to reduce energy utilization. AR-MAC assigns Guaranteed Times Slot (GTS) to every sensor node for com-munication based upon the necessities of sensor node. Analysis of this parameter is performed on TDMA and CSMA/CA techniques that will be used to do the comparison on MAC layer. The performance will be judged on beacon and non-beacon enabled mode. Enabled mode does not permit us to shape mesh topology in order to interrelate numerous beacon networks.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

WBAN AR-MAC CSMA/TDMA Frame format MAC protocols.