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Esteves, Volker
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Antonopoulos, Angelos
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Kartsakli, Elli
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Puig i Vidal, Manuel
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Miribel-Català, Pere Ll. (Pere Lluís)
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Verikoukis, Christos
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2015-10-29T12:53:50Z
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2015-10-29T12:53:50Z
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2015-05-28
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2015-10-29T12:53:50Z
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https://hdl.handle.net/2445/67531
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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.
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application/pdf
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Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150612635
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Sensors, 2015, vol. 15, num. 6, p. 12635-12650
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150612635
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/324491/EU//KINOPTIM
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cc-by (c) Esteves, Volker et al., 2015
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Articles publicats en revistes (Enginyeria Electrònica i Biomèdica)
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Sistemes de comunicació sense fil
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Recol·lecció d'energia
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Wireless communication systems
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Energy harvesting
dc.title
Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
