The Fourth Ultra Wideband for Body Area Networking Workshop

Research Article

Energy Efficiency Evaluation of ECC Scheme Utilizing Decomposable Codes in IEEE Std 802.15.6 Based WBANs

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.28-9-2015.2261439,
        author={Kento Takabayashi and Heikki Karvonen and Tuomas Paso and Hirokazu Tanaka and Chika Sugimoto and Ryuji Kohno},
        title={Energy Efficiency Evaluation of ECC Scheme Utilizing Decomposable Codes in IEEE Std 802.15.6 Based WBANs},
        proceedings={The Fourth Ultra Wideband for Body Area Networking Workshop},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={UWBAN},
        year={2015},
        month={12},
        keywords={ieee802156 qos control decomposable codes energy efficiency uwb},
        doi={10.4108/eai.28-9-2015.2261439}
    }
    
  • Kento Takabayashi
    Heikki Karvonen
    Tuomas Paso
    Hirokazu Tanaka
    Chika Sugimoto
    Ryuji Kohno
    Year: 2015
    Energy Efficiency Evaluation of ECC Scheme Utilizing Decomposable Codes in IEEE Std 802.15.6 Based WBANs
    UWBAN
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.28-9-2015.2261439
Kento Takabayashi1,*, Heikki Karvonen2, Tuomas Paso2, Hirokazu Tanaka3, Chika Sugimoto1, Ryuji Kohno1
  • 1: Yokohama National University
  • 2: Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu
  • 3: Hiroshima City University
*Contact email: takabayashi-kento-xp@ynu.jp

Abstract

Recently, studies on medical and health monitoring systems using wireless communications have been actively conducted. In the field of health monitoring systems, wireless body area network (WBAN) is one of the key technologies and its standardization activities have also been extensively carried out. In previous work we proposed an optimal QoS control scheme employing a decomposable error control coding scheme. Furthermore, we extended the error correction capacity of our decomposable code and evaluated its bit error ratio and throughput performance in a multiple WBAN environment. In this paper, we evaluate the energy efficiency of the proposed scheme by computer simulations and compare it with energy efficiency of error control scheme defined in the IEEE Std. 802.15.6. Based on the results it can be stated that the proposed ECC method is more energy efficient especially in poor channel conditions.