Research Article
Performance Comparison of IEEE802.15.6ma Error Control Scheme with Super Orthogonal Convolutional Code
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-032-38657-1_34, author={Kento Takabayashi and Ryuji Kohno}, title={Performance Comparison of IEEE802.15.6ma Error Control Scheme with Super Orthogonal Convolutional Code}, proceedings={Body Area Networks. 20th EAI International Conference, BodyNets 2025, Okayama, Japan, December 2--4, 2025, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={BODYNETS}, year={2026}, month={10}, keywords={WBAN IEEE802.15.6ma Error Control Scheme HARQ SOCC}, doi={10.1007/978-3-032-38657-1_34} }- Kento Takabayashi
Ryuji Kohno
Year: 2026
Performance Comparison of IEEE802.15.6ma Error Control Scheme with Super Orthogonal Convolutional Code
BODYNETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-38657-1_34
Abstract
With the rapid growth of IoT and healthcare needs, wearable devices and Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have gained attention. IEEE802.15.6, standardized in 2012, and ETSI SmartBAN provided initial frameworks, while the ongoing IEEE802.15.6ma revision aims to create a highly dependable WBAN by introducing UWB high-speed transmission, simplified MAC, multi-WBAN cooperation, hybrid ARQ (HARQ), and so on. This enables applications in medicine, vehicles, and industrial automation. Reliability depends on flexible use of error correcting codes and HARQ, according to coexistence environment level and QoS. By the way, super orthogonal convolutional codes (SOCC) have strong error-correcting capability and compatibility with UWB, making them candidates for adoption in IEEE802.15.6ma. This study evaluates SOCC against existing error control schemes through computer simulations under a coexistence scenario. Numerical results show that HARQ provides high reliability with some delay, while low-rate SOCC achieves strong error correction with real-time performance.