Balancing Long Lifetime and Satisfying Fairness in WBAN Using a Constrained Markov Decision Process

As an important part of the Internet of Things (IOT) and the special case of device-to-device (D2D) communication, wireless body area network (WBAN) gradually becomes the focus of attention. Since WBAN is a body-centered network, the energy of sensor nodes is strictly restrained since they are suppl...

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Main Authors: Yingqi Yin, Fengye Hu, Ling Cen, Yu Du, Lu Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/657854