Publication
Title
The wireless autonomous spanning tree protocol for multihop wireless body area networks
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Abstract
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have gained a lot of interest in the world of medical monitoring. Current implementations generally use a large single hop network to connect all sensors to a personal server. However recent research pointed out that multihop networks are more energy-efficient and even necessary when applied near the human body with inherent severe propagation loss. In this paper we present a slotted multihop approach to medium access control and routing in wireless body area networks, the Wireless Autonomous Spanning tree Protocol or WASP. It uses crosslayer techniques to achieve efficient distributed coordination of the separated wireless links. Traffic in the network is controlled by setting up a spanning tree and by broadcasting scheme messages over it that are used both by the parent and the children of each node in the tree. We analyze the performance of WASP and show the simulation results.
Language
English
Source (journal)
2006 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems - Workshops
Source (book)
3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous System -, Networking and Services, JUL 17-21, 2006, San Jose, CA
Publication
New york : Ieee , 2006
ISBN
978-0-7803-9791-0
Volume/pages
(2006) , p. 284-291
ISI
000246430200041
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