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Reliable Cross-Layer Protocol for Broadcast in Wireless Body Area Networks

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Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) open an interdisciplinary area within Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) research, with a tremendous impact in healthcare area where sensors are used to monitor, collect and transmit biological parameters of the human body. We propose the first network-MAC cross-layer broadcast protocol in WBAN. Our protocol, evaluated in the OMNET++ simulator enriched with a realistic human body mobility and channel model issued from a recent research on biomedical and health informatics, outperforms existing flat broadcast strategies in terms of network coverage, sensors energy consumption and correct reception of FIFO-ordered packets. We investigate the resilience of both existing flat broadcast strategies and our new cross-layer protocol face to various transmission rates and human body mobility. Existing flat broadcast strategies, without exception, start to have a drastic drop of performance for transmission rates above 11 Kb/s while our cross-layer protocol maintains its good performance for transmission rates up to 190 Kb/s.

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This work was funded by SMART-BAN project (Labex SMART) http://www.smart-labex.fr.

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    Wafa Badreddine & Maria Potop-Butucaru

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Badreddine, W., Potop-Butucaru, M. (2019). Reliable Cross-Layer Protocol for Broadcast in Wireless Body Area Networks. In: Palattella, M., Scanzio, S., Coleri Ergen, S. (eds) Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks. ADHOC-NOW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11803. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31831-4_32

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