Energy efficient and delay-aware adaptive slot allocation medium access control protocol for Wireless Body Area Network

Abstract

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is the cheapest solution using BioMedical Sensors. They monitor different physiological vital signs of a patient. The output of vital signs does not accept collision, delay, loss, and a high energy consumption of BMSs. This paper proposes Energy Efficient and Delay-Aware Adaptive Slots Allocation Medium Access Control (EED-MAC) Protocol for WBAN. This Proposed MAC provides sufficient and dedicated channels to all types of BMSs. The patient's data are divided according to the need of a patient. Moreover, the contentions of BMSs are reduced and does not drop data by proposing a Reduced Contention Adaptive Slots Allocation CSMA/CA (RCA-CSMA/CA) scheme. The third proposed scheme is Reliability-Aware Channel Allocation (RAC), which allocates channels for emergency-based BMSs using alert signals without contention. The simulation of the proposed MAC and other schemes achieve significant improvements against the state-of-the-art MAC protocols.