Research Article
A Robust Protocol Stack for Multi-hop Wireless Body Area Networks with Transmit Power Adaptation
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/2221924.2221941, author={Majid Nabi and Twan Basten and Marc Geilen and Milos Blagojevic and Teun Hendriks}, title={A Robust Protocol Stack for Multi-hop Wireless Body Area Networks with Transmit Power Adaptation}, proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={BODYNETS}, year={2012}, month={6}, keywords={Wireless sensor network Body area network Medium access control Gossiping Dynamic adaptation Quality of service}, doi={10.1145/2221924.2221941} }- Majid Nabi
Twan Basten
Marc Geilen
Milos Blagojevic
Teun Hendriks
Year: 2012
A Robust Protocol Stack for Multi-hop Wireless Body Area Networks with Transmit Power Adaptation
BODYNETS
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/2221924.2221941
Abstract
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have characteristic properties that should be considered for designing a proper network architecture. Movement of on-body sensors, low quality and time-variant wireless links, and the demand for a reliable and fast data transmission at low energy cost are some challenging issues in WBANs. Using ultra low power wireless transceivers to reduce power consumption causes a limited transmission range. This implies that a multi-hop protocol is a promising design choice. This paper proposes a multi-hop protocol for human body health monitoring. The protocol is robust against frequent changes of the network topology due to posture changes, and variation of wireless link quality. A technique for adapting the transmit power of sensor nodes at run-time allows to optimize power consumption while ensuring a reliable outgoing link for every node in the network and avoiding network disconnection.