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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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Autores principales: Esteves, Volker, Antonopoulos, Angelos, Kartsakli, Elli, Puig-Vidal, Manel, Miribel-Català, Pere, Verikoukis, Christos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4507617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26029950
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150612635
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author Esteves, Volker
Antonopoulos, Angelos
Kartsakli, Elli
Puig-Vidal, Manel
Miribel-Català, Pere
Verikoukis, Christos
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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.
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spelling pubmed-45076172015-07-22 Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs Esteves, Volker Antonopoulos, Angelos Kartsakli, Elli Puig-Vidal, Manel Miribel-Català, Pere Verikoukis, Christos Sensors (Basel) Article 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. MDPI 2015-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4507617/ /pubmed/26029950 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150612635 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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