An Adaptive Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for the Medical Body Area Network外文学习材料.PDFVIP

An Adaptive Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for the Medical Body Area Network * ** N. F. Timmons and W. G. Scanlon * WiSAR Lab, Letterkenny Institute of Technology Letterkenny, Donegal Email: nick.timmons@lyit.ie ** School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queen’s University, Belfast Email: w.scanlon@qub.ac.uk Abstract—Medical body area networks will employ both A. Medical BAN Technical Requirements implantable and bodyworn devices to support a diverse range of The main challenge in medical BANs is to balance the applications with throughputs ranging from several bits per hour demands of the hard energy constraint associated with low up to 10 Mbps. The challenge is to accommodate this range of applications within a single wireless network based on a suitably power wireless sensor devices, with the quality of service flexible and power efficient medium access control protocol. To (QoS) demands of the wide range of sensing and control