A Transmission Power Control Algorithm for Wireless Body Area Networks

Energy efficiency is a key issue for wireless sensor nodes, especially for wireless body area networks (WBANs) that operate near the human body or in the human body. Aiming at the problem that WBAN system still has too fast energy consumption, we propose a ZigBee star network model with multiple sensing nodes as end nodes, and design an adaptive transmission power correction control algorithm with adjustment factors to select the appropriate transmit power to reduce the energy consumption. Experiments show that the proposed power control algorithm reduces the overall energy consumption by reasonably controlling the transmission power in the ZigBee star network model.