Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs

被引:50
作者
Esteves, Volker [1 ]
Antonopoulos, Angelos [2 ]
Kartsakli, Elli [2 ]
Puig-Vidal, Manel [1 ]
Miribel-Catala, Pere [1 ]
Verikoukis, Christos [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Barcelona, Dept Elect, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
[2] Tech Univ Catalonia UPC BarcelonaTECH, Dept Signal Theory & Commun TSC, Castelldefels 08860, Spain
关键词
MAC protocol design; cooperative communications; energy harvesting; WBANs; NETWORKS;
D O I
10.3390/s150612635
中图分类号
O65 [分析化学];
学科分类号
070302 ; 081704 ;
摘要
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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页码:12635 / 12650
页数:16
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