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

Targeting the medical monitoring applications of wireless body area networks (WBANs), a hybrid medium access control protocol using an interrupt mechanism (I-MAC) is proposed to improve the energy and time slot utilization efficiency and to meet the data delivery delay requirement at the same time....

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Main Authors: Shu, Minglei, Yuan, Dongfeng, Zhang, Chongqing, Wang, Yinglong, Chen, Changfang
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: MDPI 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4507673/