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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