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Authors:
Richard Jaramillo
Alejandro Quintero
Steven Chamberland
Keywords: context awareness; energy efficiency; congestion control; loss recovery, WBAN architecture
Abstract:
Reliability, Context awareness and Energy efficiency are some of the most important requirements for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). The proposed architecture for WBANs puts together a Media Access Control (MAC) protocol, a Transport Protocol and a Rate Control scheme proposed in our previous work. It proposes the use of three extra bits within each beacon period for indicating whether the hub is going to assign new slot Reallocations to the nodes, to request for lost packet Retransmissions from the nodes, to send Rate-control requests to the nodes, or any combination of them. Some experimental results are presented in order to validate the requirements and a comparison with other architectures is made using the main detected requirements for WBANs
Pages: 11 to 18
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017
Publication date: June 25, 2017
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-3468
ISBN: 978-1-61208-568-5
Location: Venice, Italy
Dates: from June 25, 2017 to June 29, 2017