Nepal Sabita, Pudasani Amod, Shin Seokjoo
Department of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju 61452, Korea.
Sensors (Basel). 2017 Feb 27;17(3):477. doi: 10.3390/s17030477.
Ubiquitous healthcare is a promising technology that has attracted significant attention in recent years; this has led to the realization of wireless body area networks (WBANs). For designing a robust WBAN system, the WBAN has to solve the drawbacks of wireless technology. Also, a WBAN has to support immediate, reliable data transmission for medical services during emergencies. Hence, this study proposes a new MAC superframe structure that can handle emergencies by delivering strongly correlated regular data to a caretaker, within a certain time threshold. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed MAC protocol achieves low latency and high throughput.
泛在医疗是一项近年来备受关注的有前景的技术;这促使了无线体域网(WBANs)的实现。为了设计一个健壮的WBAN系统,WBAN必须解决无线技术的缺点。此外,WBAN必须在紧急情况下支持即时、可靠的医疗服务数据传输。因此,本研究提出了一种新的MAC超帧结构,该结构可以通过在一定时间阈值内将强相关的常规数据传送给看护人来处理紧急情况。仿真结果表明,所提出的MAC协议实现了低延迟和高吞吐量。