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The Medium Access Scheduling Scheme for Efficient Data Transmission in Wireless Body Area Network

WBAN 환경에서 효율적 데이터 전송을 위한 매체 접근 스케줄링 기법

  • Jang, EunMee (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Park, TaeShin (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Kim, JinHyuk (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Choi, SangBan (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
  • Received : 2016.10.04
  • Accepted : 2017.02.03
  • Published : 2017.02.25
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Abstract

IEEE 802.15.6 standard, a Wireless Body Area Network, aims to transfer not only medical data but also non-medical data, such as physical activity, streaming, multimedia game, living information, and entertainment. Services which transfer those data have very various data rates, intervals and frequencies of continuous access to a medium. Therefore, an efficient anti-collision operations and medium assigning operation have to be carried out when multiple nodes with different data rates are accessing shared medium. IEEE 802.15.6 standard for CSMA/CA medium access control method distributes access to the shared medium, transmits a control packet to avoid collision and checks status of the channel. This method is energy inefficient and causes overhead. These disadvantages conflict with the low power, low cost calculation requirement of wireless body area network, shall minimize such overhead for efficient wireless body area network operations. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a medium access scheduling scheme, which adjusts the time interval for accessing to the shared transmission medium according to the amount of data for generating respective sensor node, and a priority control algorithm, which temporarily adjusts the priority of the sensor node that causes transmission concession due to the data priority until next successful transmission to ensure fairness.

무선 인체 영역 네트워크 표준인 IEEE 802.15.6은 의료 데이터뿐만 아니라 신체활동, 스트리밍, 멀티미디어 게임과 같은 생활정보 및 엔터테인먼트 등의 비-의료 데이터를 함께 전송하는 것을 목표로 한다. 이러한 데이터의 전송을 수행하는 서비스들은 매우 다양한 데이터 전송률을 가지며 공유 전송 매체에 접근하는 간격 및 연속적으로 접근하는 횟수의 분포가 다양하게 나타난다. 서로 다른 전송률을 가진 다수의 노드가 공유 전송 매체에 접근할 때 효율적인 충돌 방지 및 전송 매체 할당을 수행해야 한다. IEEE 802.15.6 표준의 CSMA/CA 매체 접근 제어 방법은 공유 매체에 접근을 분산시키고 충돌을 회피하기 위해 부가적인 제어 패킷을 전송하며, 전송대기 상태의 센서 노드도 채널의 상태를 계속 확인한다. 이는 추가적인 오버헤드 발생으로 인한 에너지 비효율적인 측면을 보인다. 이러한 단점은 무선 인체 영역 네트워크의 저전력, 저 계산비용 요구사항과 상충하며, 효율적인 무선 인체 영역 네트워크 운용을 위해서는 이러한 오버헤드를 최소화하여야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 각 센서 노드가 생성하는 데이터양에 따라 공유 전송 매체에 접근하는 시간 간격을 조절하여 전송을 시도하는 매체 접근 스케줄링 기법과 데이터 우선순위로 인한 전송 양보가 발생한 센서 노드의 우선순위를 다음 전송 성공 시까지 일시적으로 조절하여 공정성을 보장하는 우선순위 조절 알고리즘을 제안한다.

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