A Novel Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network

摘要

Wireless Body Area Network(WBAN) is the most promising technology in e-health applications.Energy efficiency stands out as the paramount issue for WBAN.In this paper,an energy efficient MAC protocol named Quasi-Sleep-Preempt-Supported(QSPS) is proposed.The protocol is mainly TDMA-based:nodes transmit packets in the allocated slots,while entering the Q-Sleep mode in other slots.Moreover,for a node with emergency packet,it can broadcast a special designed Awakening Message to wake up the whole network and preempts the right to use the current slot to transmit that emergency packet,thus decreasing delay.Compared with relevant protocols,QS-PS can achieve high energy efficiency and decrease the delay of both normal packets and emergency packets.