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http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2016.19.9.1690

Zigbee MAC Protocol based Super frame Design for In-body Nano-Network Applications  

Lee, Kyung-Hwan (Department of Information and Communications Engineering, College of Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Kim, Sung-Un (Department of Information and Communications Engineering, College of Engineering, Pukyong National University)
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Journal of Korea Multimedia Society / v.19, no.9, 2016 , pp. 1690-1697 More about this Journal
Abstract
In a beacon-enabled Zigbee network, the slotted CSMA/CA mechanism based on the super frame structure fairly provides communication chance for each node and makes a reasonable usage of the available energy. In the case of wireless nano sensors that are implanted into the target human body area for detecting disease symptoms or virus, such a nano-network requires a similar type of channel sharing and transmission of short length event-driven data. In this paper, for nano-network's in-body applications, we aim to design conceptually a new super frame derived from the existing beacon-enabled Zigbee MAC protocol. And we analyze the efficiency of the proposed super frame in the aspect of practical deployment.
Keywords
IoNT; IoBNT; Nano-Network; Zigbee; Slotted CSMA/CA; Beacon-enabled Zigbee MAC; Super frame;
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