Enhancement of the duty cycle cooperative medium access control for wireless body area networks

Hammood, D. A., Rahim, H. A., Ahmad, R. B., Alkhayyat, A., Salleh, M. E. M., Abdulmalek, M., Jusoh, M. and Abbasi, Q. H. (2019) Enhancement of the duty cycle cooperative medium access control for wireless body area networks. IEEE Access, 7, pp. 3348-3359. (doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2886291)

Abstract

This paper presents a novel energy-efficient and reliable connection to enhance the transmission of data over a shared medium for wireless body area networks (WBAN). We propose a novel protocol of two master nodes-based cooperative protocol. In the proposed protocol, two master nodes were considered, that is, the belt master node and the outer body master node. The master nodes work cooperatively to avoid the retransmission process by sensors due to fading and collision, reducing the bit error rate (BER), which results in a reduction of the duty cycle and average transmission power. In addition, we have also presented a mathematical model of the duty cycle with the proposed protocol for the WBAN. The results show that the proposed cooperative protocol reduced the BER by a factor of 4. The average transmission power is reduced by a factor of 0.21 and this shows the potential of the proposed technique to be used in future wearable wireless sensors and systems.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Abbasi, Professor Qammer
• Authors: Hammood, D. A., Rahim, H. A., Ahmad, R. B., Alkhayyat, A., Salleh, M. E. M., Abdulmalek, M., Jusoh, M., and Abbasi, Q. H.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering
• Journal Name: IEEE Access
• Publisher: IEEE
• ISSN: 2169-3536
• ISSN (Online): 2169-3536
• Published Online: 24 December 2018
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2019 The Authors
• First Published: First published in IEEE Access 7: 3348-3359
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License