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In order to satisfy the heterogeneous service requirements from different applications and the complex channel characters owing to body motions, IEEE 802.15.6 standard was established as a new solution for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). In this paper, we evaluate the effect of user priorities (UPs) on the performance of IEEE 802.15.6 CSMA/CA channel access mechanism in narrow band. Simulation metrics mainly focus on the normalized throughput and average packet delay in which the traffic arrival rate and traffic distribution vary. In addition, we make a performance comparison with the non-priority CSMA/CA which concludes that the IEEE 802.15.6 with user priorities performs better in specific situation.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61271176, the National Science and Technology Major Project under Grant No. 2013ZX03005007-003, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and the 111 Project (B08038).
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Yang, L., Li, C., Song, Y., Yuan, X., Lei, Y. (2015). Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.6 MAC with User Priorities for Medical Applications. In: Park, J., Pan, Y., Chao, HC., Yi, G. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing Application and Wireless Sensor. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 331. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9618-7_3
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