Cooperative energy harvesting-adaptive MAC protocol for WBANs

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Title:	Cooperative energy harvesting-adaptive MAC protocol for WBANs
Author:	Esteves, Volker; Antonopoulos, Angelos; Kartsakli, Elli; Puig Vidal, Manel; Miribel Català, Pere Lluís; Verikoukis, Christos
Other authors:	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. WiComTec - Grup de recerca en Tecnologies i Comunicacions Sense Fils
Abstract:	In this paper, we introduce a cooperative medium access control (MAC) protocol, named cooperative energy harvesting (CEH)-MAC, that adapts its operation to the energy harvesting (EH) conditions in wireless body area networks (WBANs). In particular, the proposed protocol exploits the EH information in order to set an idle time that allows the relay nodes to charge their batteries and complete the cooperation phase successfully. Extensive simulations have shown that CEH-MAC significantly improves the network performance in terms of throughput, delay and energy efficiency compared to the cooperative operation of the baseline IEEE 802.15.6 standard.
Abstract:	Peer Reviewed
Subject(s):	-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors -Body area networks (Electronics) -MAC protocol design -cooperative communications -energy harvesting -WBANs -BODY AREA NETWORKS -Ordinadors, Xarxes d'
Rights:	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Document type:	Article - Published version Article
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