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A High Throughput MAC Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks in Intensive Care

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Smart City and Informatization (iSCI 2019)

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Health monitoring systems are one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, as the world’s older population grows dramatically at an unprecedented rate. These systems provide an opportunity to share the medical information, medical applications and infrastructures required in a fully automated way accessible everywhere. This paper addresses the need for a protocol in health applications which covers packets collision while considering the balance between transferred information and service quality, as thoroughly examines details of simulating media access control protocols in body area sensor networks based on a combination of pooling and TDMA protocols. Experimental results validate the proposed protocol with high throughput and acceptable delay.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61632009, in part by the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation under Grant 2017A030308006, and in part by the High-Level Talents Program of Higher Education in Guangdong Province under Grant 2016ZJ01.

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    Kuan-Ching Li

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Javadpour, A., Wang, G., Li, KC. (2019). A High Throughput MAC Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks in Intensive Care. In: Wang, G., El Saddik, A., Lai, X., Martinez Perez, G., Choo, KK. (eds) Smart City and Informatization. iSCI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1122. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1301-5_3

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