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A Robust Beacon Scheduling Scheme for Coexistence Between UWB Based WBAN and WiMedia Networks

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Ultra wideband (UWB) technology has emerged as a solution for the wireless interface between medical sensors and a personal server in future telemedicine systems. The WiMedia Alliance has specified a distributed medium access control (D-MAC) protocol based on UWB for high-rate wireless personal area networks (WPANs). Also, the IEEE 802.15.6 standard for wireless body area networks (WBANs) allows that devices for healthcare and lifestyle applications are placed around and within the body. However, current WBAN devices cannot coexist with other home network systems or WPAN systems and cannot share wireless channel with the existing WiMedia devices, efficiently. Existing researches about coexistence are not suitable for WiMedia MAC protocol based on distributed architecture, since they focused on MAC protocol based on centralized architecture. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a robust beacon scheduling scheme for coexistence between UWB based WBAN and WiMedia networks. Using proposed scheme, WBAN devices can share the resource more efficiently with WiMedia devices and exchange data frames through the reserved BAN period duration.

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Abbreviations

AC:

Access category

BPST:

Beacon period start time

CAP:

Contention access phase

D-MAC:

Distributed medium access control

DRP:

Distributed reservation protocol

EAP:

Exclusive access phase

FER:

Frame error rate

HDTV:

High definition television

IE:

Information element

MAP:

Managed access phase

MAS:

Medium access slot

PCA:

Prioritized contention access

QoS:

Quality of service

RAP:

Random access phase

RBP:

Reserved BAN period

UWB:

Ultra wide-band

VoIP:

Voice over Internet protocol

WBAN:

Wireless body area network

WPAN:

Wireless personal area network

WUSB:

Wireless universal serial bus

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported in part by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2009-0093828) and in part by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning), Korea, under the C-ITRC (Convergence Information Technology Research Center) support program (NIPA-2014-H0401-14-1009) supervised by the NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency).

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  1. Research Institute of Information Science and Engineering, Mokpo National University, 534-729, Dorim-ri, Cheonggye-myeon, Muan-gun, Mokpo, Jeollanam-do, Korea

    Jin-Woo Kim

  2. Department of Computer Education, Gyeongin National University of Education, 407-753, Gyesan-Dong San 59-12, 45 Gyodae-Gil, Gyeyang-Gu, Incheon, Korea

    Kyeong Hur

  3. Department of Electronics Engineering, Mokpo National University, 534-729, Dorim-ri, Cheonggye-myeon, Muan-gun, Mokpo, Jeollanam-do, Korea

    Seong-Ro Lee

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Kim, JW., Hur, K. & Lee, SR. A Robust Beacon Scheduling Scheme for Coexistence Between UWB Based WBAN and WiMedia Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 80, 303–319 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-2010-x

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