8th International Conference on Body Area Networks

Research Article

Experimental Characterisation of an IEEE 802.15.6-Based Body Area Network

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253691,
        author={Alfonso Panunzio and Marco Pietro Caria and Stefan Mijovic and Riccardo Cavallari and Chiara Buratti},
        title={Experimental Characterisation of an IEEE 802.15.6-Based Body Area Network},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Body Area Networks},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
        year={2013},
        month={10},
        keywords={csma/ca ieee 802156 wban packet loss rate delay throughput},
        doi={10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253691}
    }
    
  • Alfonso Panunzio
    Marco Pietro Caria
    Stefan Mijovic
    Riccardo Cavallari
    Chiara Buratti
    Year: 2013
    Experimental Characterisation of an IEEE 802.15.6-Based Body Area Network
    BODYNETS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253691
Alfonso Panunzio1, Marco Pietro Caria1, Stefan Mijovic1, Riccardo Cavallari1,*, Chiara Buratti1
  • 1: University of Bologna
*Contact email: riccardo.cavallari@unibo.it

Abstract

This paper presents the implementation of Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol based on the IEEE 802.15.6 standard on a hardware platform developed for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications. The CSMA/CA allows each node to detect an ongoing transmission and consequently wait until the channel is idle. A testing campaign has been conducted in order to evaluat the performance of the protocol in terms of packet loss rate, average packet delay and network throughput. This workhas been performed in the framework of the FP7 Integrated Project, WiserBAN (Smart miniature low-power wireless microsystem for Body Area Networks).