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An AHP-Based Interface and Channel Selection for Multi-channel MAC Protocol in IoT Ecosystem

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Recently, the significance of internet of things (IoT) is rapidly growing in the next generation of information and communication technology due to rapid advances in wireless communication technologies which have triggered the development of low-power, reliable and miniaturized devices. These advances lead to the creation of IoT ecosystem that enables development of various services. Especially, there are a number of attempts to apply communication technology of IoT in the field of healthcare services which deals with medical applications such as a remote medical treatment. In IoT-based healthcare system, in general, a number of medical devices are densely deployed in narrow area. Therefore, they are exposed to signal interference among them which causes significant performance degradation. In this paper, we present an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)-based network interface and channel selection algorithm for multi-channel MAC protocols in IoT ecosystem that take into account a multitude of decision factors, such as expected channel condition, latency and frame reception ratio. The proposed scheme can provide flexibility for various requirements of different medical services through performing AHP. In particular, the proposed scheme considers IoT-based healthcare system because it is the most complex scenario of fundamental IoT applications. To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we perform extensive simulations, and the simulation study shows that the proposed algorithm provides low latency and high reliability.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2014R1A1A2060035), and this work was supported by the Soonchunhyang University Research Fund.

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    BeomSeok Kim

  2. Department of Computer Software Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, Asan-si, 31538, Korea

    Seokhoon Kim

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Kim, B., Kim, S. An AHP-Based Interface and Channel Selection for Multi-channel MAC Protocol in IoT Ecosystem. Wireless Pers Commun 93, 97–118 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3493-4

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