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Sensors 2011, 11, 3717-3737; doi:10.3390/s110403717 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article A Very Low Power MAC (VLPM) Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks Niamat Ullah *, Pervez Khan and Kyung Sup Kwak Graduate School of Information Communication Engineering, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon 402-751, Korea; E-Mails: pervaizkanju@ (P.K.); kskwak@inha.ac.kr (K.S.K.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: niamatnaz@; Tel.: +82-10-9294-5111. Received: 12 February 2011; in revised form: 20 March 2011 / Accepted: 23 March 2011