한국ITS학회 논문지 (The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems)

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  • Pages.131-140
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  • 2009
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  • 1738-0774(pISSN)
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  • 2384-1729(eISSN)
한국ITS학회 (The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems)
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A Power-Efficient MAC Protocol for WBAN

  • 곽경섭 (하대학교 정보통신공학부) ;
  • 사나울라 (인하대학교 정보통신대학원) ;
  • 곽대한 (인하대학교 초광대역 무선통신 연구센터(UWB-ITRC)) ;
  • 이철효 (한국전자통신연구원) ;
  • 이형수 (한국전자통신연구원)
  • 발행 : 2009.12.31
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초록

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)을 위한 핵심과제 중 하나는 에너지 제약적 센서노드에 에너지 효율적이고 유연한 작업주기 기술을 적용하여 네트워크 수명을 극대화하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 WBAN에 적합한 일반용, 응급용, 그리고 주문형(on-demand) 방식의 트래픽을 신뢰 있게 전달하는 방법의 효율적인 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다. 본 프로토콜은 두 가지 방식의 웨이크 업(Wakeup) 메커니즘을 지원하며 첫 번째는 트래픽 기반의 웨이크 업 메커니즘으로 이는 노드의 트래픽 패턴을 이용하여 일반 트래픽을 수용한다. 또한, 두 번째 방식은 레디오 웨이크 업 통신 메커니즘이며 이는 웨이크업 전송을 이용하여 응급 및 온 주문형 트래픽을 수용한다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 프로토콜이 WBAN 시스템의 수명기간을 향상 할 뿐만 아니라 불규칙적으로 발생하는 사건들을 처리 할 수 있는 신뢰적인 방법을 제공함을 알 수 있다. 시뮬레이션 통하여 제안된 프로토콜의 성능이 WiseMac을 전력 소모 및 지연 측면에서 우수한 성능향상을 보여준다.

A key challenge for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is to maximize the network lifetime with power-efficient and flexible duty cycling techniques on energy-constraint sensor nodes. In this paper, we propose a novel power-efficient MAC protocol for WBAN that accommodates normal, emergency, and on-demand traffic in a reliable manner. This protocol supports two wakeup mechanisms, a traffic-based wakeup mechanism, which accommodates normal traffic by exploiting the node's traffic patterns, and a wakeup radio mechanism, which accommodates emergency and on-demand traffic by using a wakeup radio. It can be seen that the proposed protocol not only improves the lifetime of WBAN but also provides a reliable method to handle sporadic events. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol outperforms WiseMAC in terms of low-power consumption and delay.

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