An Emergency Handling Scheme for Superframe-Structured MAC Protocols in WBANs

作者:Kim BeomSeok*; Cho Jinsung; Kim Dae Young
来源:IEICE - Transactions on Communications, 2011, E94B(9): 2484-2487.
DOI:10.1587/transcom.E94.B.2484

摘要

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) provide medical and/or consumer electronics (CE) services within the vicinity of a human body. In a WBAN environment, immediate and reliable data transmissions during an emergency situation should be supported for medical services. In this letter, we propose a flexible emergency handling scheme for WBAN MAC protocols. The proposed scheme can be applied to superframe-structured MAC protocols such as IEEE 802.15.4 and its extended versions. In addition, our scheme can be incorporated into the current working draft for IEEE 802.15.6 standards. Extensive simulations were performed and the low latency of emergent traffics was validated.

  • 出版日期2011-9