A low-complexity medium access control framework for body sensor networks

Bo Wang; Lei Wang; Bang-Yu Huang; Dan Wu; Shao-Jie Lin; Jia Gu; Yuan-Ting Zhang; Wei Chen

doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333948

A low-complexity medium access control framework for body sensor networks

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009:2009:2446-9. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333948.

Authors

Bo Wang¹, Lei Wang, Bang-Yu Huang, Dan Wu, Shao-Jie Lin, Jia Gu, Yuan-Ting Zhang, Wei Chen

Affiliation

¹ Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, and the Key Lab of Biomedical Informatics and Health Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 518067, China.

PMID: 19964586
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333948

Abstract

This paper proposed a low-complexity medium access control (MAC) protocol tailored for body sensor networks (BSN) applications. The MAC protocol was designated to handle collision avoidance by reducing the numbers of the overhead packets for handshake control within the BSN. We also suggested a novel message recovery mechanism for getting back the lost physiological information. The adaptive synchronization scheme we have implemented exploited the features of multiple data-rate and adjustable precision design to support differentiated healthcare applications. The MAC protocol was fully implemented using our BSN development platform. The experimental results suggested the improved MAC design was compact and energy-efficient.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Computer Communication Networks / instrumentation*
Computer Security / instrumentation
Computer Simulation
Computers
Electric Power Supplies
Equipment Design
Humans
Monitoring, Ambulatory / instrumentation*
Telemedicine / instrumentation
Telemetry / instrumentation*
Transducers*