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Impact of Wireless Channel Temporal Variation on MAC Design for Body Area Networks

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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Volume 11, Issue S2

Article No.: 51, Pages 1 - 18

https://doi.org/10.1145/2331147.2331161

Published: 01 August 2012 Publication History

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We investigate the impact of wireless channel temporal variations on the design of medium access control (MAC) protocols for body area networks (BANs). Our measurements-based channel model captures large and small time-scale signal correlations, giving an accurate picture of the signal variation, specifically, the deep fades which are the features that mostly affect the behavior of the MAC. We test the effect of the channel model on the performance of the 802.15.4 MAC both in contention access mode and TDMA access mode. We show that there are considerable differences in the performance of the MAC compared to simulations that do not model channel temporal variation. Furthermore, explaining the behavior of the MAC under a temporal varying channel, we can suggest specific design choices for the emerging BAN MAC standard.

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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Volume 11, Issue S2

Special Section on CAPA'09, Special Section on WHS'09, and Special Section VCPSS' 09

August 2012

396 pages

ISSN:1539-9087

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DOI:10.1145/2331147

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Published: 01 August 2012

Accepted: 01 September 2010

Revised: 01 July 2010

Received: 01 October 2009

Published in TECS Volume 11, Issue S2

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