Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs

Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs

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 i...

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Main Authors: Volker Esteves, Angelos Antonopoulos, Elli Kartsakli, Manel Puig-Vidal, Pere Miribel-Català, Christos Verikoukis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-05-01
Series:Sensors
Subjects:
MAC protocol design
cooperative communications
energy harvesting
WBANs
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/6/12635
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spelling doaj-45ecd72262564dd5a10056a7ab7f513c2020-11-24T23:22:55ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202015-05-01156126351265010.3390/s150612635s150612635Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANsVolker Esteves0Angelos Antonopoulos1Elli Kartsakli2Manel Puig-Vidal3Pere Miribel-Català4Christos Verikoukis5Department of Electronics, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona 08028, SpainDepartment of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC—BarcelonaTECH), C./ Esteve Terradas 7, C4-202P, Castelldefels 08860, SpainDepartment of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC—BarcelonaTECH), C./ Esteve Terradas 7, C4-202P, Castelldefels 08860, SpainDepartment of Electronics, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona 08028, SpainDepartment of Electronics, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona 08028, SpainDepartment of Electronics, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona 08028, SpainIn 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.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/6/12635MAC protocol designcooperative communicationsenergy harvestingWBANs
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author Volker Esteves
Angelos Antonopoulos
Elli Kartsakli
Manel Puig-Vidal
Pere Miribel-Català
Christos Verikoukis
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Angelos Antonopoulos
Elli Kartsakli
Manel Puig-Vidal
Pere Miribel-Català
Christos Verikoukis
Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs
Sensors
MAC protocol design
cooperative communications
energy harvesting
WBANs
author_facet Volker Esteves
Angelos Antonopoulos
Elli Kartsakli
Manel Puig-Vidal
Pere Miribel-Català
Christos Verikoukis
author_sort Volker Esteves
title Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs
title_short Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs
title_full Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs
title_fullStr Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs
title_full_unstemmed Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs
title_sort cooperative energy harvesting-adaptive mac protocol for wbans
publisher MDPI AG
series Sensors
issn 1424-8220
publishDate 2015-05-01
description 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.
topic MAC protocol design
cooperative communications
energy harvesting
WBANs
url http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/6/12635
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