IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
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Special Section on Information and Communication Technology for Medical and Healthcare Applications in Conjunction with Main Topics of ISMICT2013
Multiplexing and Error Control Scheme for Body Area Network Employing IEEE 802.15.6
Kento TAKABAYASHIHirokazu TANAKAChika SUGIMOTORyuji KOHNO
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2014 Volume E97.B Issue 3 Pages 564-570

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This paper proposes and investigates a multiplexing and error control scheme for Body Area Network (BAN). In February 2012, an international standard of WBAN, IEEE802.15.6, was published and it supports error control schemes. This standard also defines seven different QoS modes however, how to utilize them is not clearly specified. In this paper, an optimization method of the QoS is proposed. In order to utilize the QoS parameters, a multiplexing scheme is introduced. Then, the Hybrid ARQ in IEEE 802.15.6 is modified to employ decomposable codes and Weldon's ARQ protocol for more associations with channel conditions and required QoS. The proposed scheme has higher flexibility for optimizing the QoS parameters according to the required QoS.

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