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On the Link Layer Performance of Narrowband Body Area Networks

Authors:
Jean-Michel Dricot
Gianluigi Ferrari
Stéphane Van Roy
Francois Horlin
Philippe De Doncker

Keywords: body area networks, performance, network throughput

Abstract:
Personal area networks and, more specifically, body area networks (BANs) are key building blocks of the future generation networks and the Internet of Things as well. In the last years, research has focused on the channel modeling and the definition of efficient medium access control (MAC) mech- anisms. Less attention was paid to network-level performance. Thereby, this paper presents a novel analytical model for network performance analysis with centralized and mesh topologies. This model takes into account the channel statistics (i.e., the large-scale fading) and delivers several insights on the BAN implementation.

Pages: 83 to 88

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: October 25, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9383

ISBN: 978-1-61208-103-8

Location: Florence, Italy

Dates: from October 25, 2010 to October 30, 2010