Performance Analysis of Preamble-Based TDMA Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network
Abstract
A wireless body area network (WBAN) allows the integration of low power, invasive or non-invasive miniaturized sensors around a human body. Each intelligent sensor has enough capability to analyze and process the physiological parameters and to forward all the information to a central intelligent node for disease management, diagnosis and prescription. The data transmission rate of various biosensors is heterogeneous. Furthermore, the limited energy resources and computational power of these sensors have urged the development of low power energy efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol. This paper studies the performance of Preamble-Based time division multiple access (PB-TDMA) protocol for a heterogeneous non-invasive WBAN. Simulation results show that the performance of PB-TDMA protocol outperforms S-MAC and IEEE 802.11 DCF in terms of throughput and power consumption.
Keywords
medium access protocol, preamble, low-power., wireless body area network
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S. Ullah, R. Islam, A. Nessa, Y. Zhong and K. Kwak, "Performance Analysis of Preamble-Based TDMA Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network," in Journal of Communications Software and Systems, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 222-226, September 2008, doi: 10.24138/jcomss.v4i3.221
@article{ullah2008performanceanalysis,
author = {Sana Ullah and Riazul Islam and Ahasanun Nessa and Yingji Zhong and Kyung Sup Kwak},
title = {Performance Analysis of Preamble-Based TDMA Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network},
journal = {Journal of Communications Software and Systems},
month = {9},
year = {2008},
volume = {4},
number = {3},
pages = {222--226},
doi = {10.24138/jcomss.v4i3.221},
url = {https://doi.org/10.24138/jcomss.v4i3.221}
}