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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/KICS.2011.36A.10.823

Systematic Network Coding for Computational Efficiency and Energy Efficiency in Wireless Body Area Networks  

Kim, Dae-Hyeok (포항공과대학교 정보전자융합공학부)
Suh, Young-Joo (포항공과대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
Abstract
Recently, wireless body area network (WBAN) has received much attention as an application for the ubiquitous healthcare system. In WBAN, each sensor nodes and a personal base station such as PDA have an energy constraint and computation overhead should be minimized due to node's limited computing power and memory constraint. The reliable data transmission also must be guaranteed because it handles vital signals. In this paper, we propose a systematic network coding scheme for WBAN to reduce the network coding overhead as well as total energy consumption for completion the transmission. We model the proposed scheme using Markov chain. To minimize the total energy consumption for completing the data transmission, we made the problem as a minimization problem and find an optimal solution. Our simulation result shows that large amount of energy reduction is achieved by proposed systematic network coding. Also, the proposed scheme reduces the computational overhead of network coding imposed on each node by simplify the decoding process.
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무선 인체 네트워크;네트워크 코딩;시분할 다중 접속;에너지 효율;계산 복잡도;
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