Joint Energy Harvesting and Internetwork Interference Mitigation amongst Coexisting Wireless Body Area Networks

Samaneh Movassaghi; Mehran Abolhasan; David Smith; Abbas Jamalipour

9th International Conference on Body Area Networks

Research Article

Joint Energy Harvesting and Internetwork Interference Mitigation amongst Coexisting Wireless Body Area Networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.bodynets.2014.257068,
    author={Samaneh Movassaghi and Mehran Abolhasan and David Smith and Abbas Jamalipour},
    title={Joint Energy Harvesting and Internetwork Interference Mitigation amongst Coexisting Wireless Body Area Networks},
    proceedings={9th International Conference on Body Area Networks},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
    year={2014},
    month={11},
    keywords={wireless body area networks wbans ieee 802156 interference mitigation energy harvesting},
    doi={10.4108/icst.bodynets.2014.257068}
}

Samaneh Movassaghi
Mehran Abolhasan
David Smith
Abbas Jamalipour
Year: 2014
Joint Energy Harvesting and Internetwork Interference Mitigation amongst Coexisting Wireless Body Area Networks
BODYNETS
ACM
DOI: 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2014.257068

Samaneh Movassaghi¹^,*, Mehran Abolhasan², David Smith³, Abbas Jamalipour⁴

1: Ms., School of Communication and Computing, University of Technology, Sydney,NSW, Australia
2: A/Prof, School of Communication and Computing, University of Technology, Sydney,NSW, Australia
3: National ICT Australia (NICTA), Canberra, ACT, Australia
4: School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney

*Contact email: movassaghi.samaneh@gmail.com

Abstract

This paper investigates simultaneous transfer of information and energy for interference mitigation amongst multiple coexisting Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). We propose to utilize interference that falls into the network as a source of energy, which is mainly discarded in conventional interference mitigation schemes. More specifically, in each time slot, a single sensor node is scheduled to receive information whilst the remaining sensor nodes opportunistically harvest the ambient radio frequency energy. We develop a novel opportunistic scheduling scheme, which offers a significantly high network lifetime through a tradeoff between a sensor's spectral efficiency and average amount of energy harvested. Simulation results show that the proposed energy harvesting with smart channel allocation (E-SCA) scheme can achieve optimal spatial reuse and good energy harvesting. We also show that the proposed approach is robust to variations in channel conditions, density of sensor nodes in each WBAN and increase in number of coexisting WBANs.

Keywords: wireless body area networks wbans ieee 802156 interference mitigation energy harvesting

Published: 2014-11-21
Publisher: ICST

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.bodynets.2014.257068