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A MAC Protocol for Medical Emergency Monitoring of Wireless Body Area Networks

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An adaptive medium access control (MAC) protocol is specially designed for medical emergency monitoring to improve energy efficiency and satisfy data transmission delay requirements. By adopting a long superframe structure to avoid unnecessary beacons and allocating most of the superframe to inactive periods, the duty cycle is reduced to an extremely low level. Short active time slots are inserted into the superframe and shared by all nodes to deliver emergency data in a low-delay and reliable framework. Experimental results show the proposed MAC protocol works well for WBANs with low emergency data flow.

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Acknowledgements

This research has been financially supported by Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Project under Grant No. 2014GSF118107, Open Research Fund from Shandong provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Network under Grand No. SDKLCN-2014-04, Postdoctoral Innovation Special Fund of Shandong Province and Chinese National Natural Science Fund under Grant No. 61170253.

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  1. College of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266590, China

    Chong-Qing Zhang, Yong-Quan Liang, Huan-Qing Cui & Sheng Fang

  2. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Networks, Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), Jinan, 250101, China

    Chong-Qing Zhang, Ying-Long Wang, Ming-Lei Shu & Chang-Fang Chen

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Zhang, CQ. et al. (2016). A MAC Protocol for Medical Emergency Monitoring of Wireless Body Area Networks. In: Hussain, A. (eds) Electronics, Communications and Networks V. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 382. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0740-8_4

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