• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.1225-1230
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• 2015

WBAN을 위한 MAC 프로토콜은 의료용 센서 노드의 가변적인 데이터를 효율적으로 처리하기 위해서 응급상황에서 발생하는 트래픽을 가장 높은 우선순위로 처리하는 CSMA/CA(: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) 알고리즘을 수행하게 된다. 노드가 전송하는 응급 메시지는 충돌이 발생하게 되고 응급 메시지 재전송으로 인한 전송 지연이 발생할 수 있으며 재전송으로 인한 에너지 낭비를 가져올 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점들을 개선하기 위해서 우선순위 큐잉을 적용한 CSMA/CA 알고리즘의 경우 MAC 명령어 프레임과 데이터 프레임의 우선순위를 정하여 서로 다른 백오프 파라미터를 적용하고 충돌로 인한 프레임 손실을 최소화하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 성능평가 결과 제안한 MAC 프로토콜을 사용했을 때가 IEEE 802.15.6을 사용했을때 보다 충돌 확률이 감소하여 패킷 전송 처리율이 증가하고 패킷 손실량이 감소함을 보였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.1589-1598
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• 2014

IEEE 802.15.6 표준화 문서에서 WBAN을 위한 MAC 프로토콜은 의료용 센서 노드의 주기적인 데이터를 효율적으로 처리하기 위해서 8단계로 나누어진 트래픽 우선순위를 기준으로 응급 상황에서 발생하는 트래픽을 가장 높은 우선순위로 처리하는 CSMA/CA(Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) 알고리즘을 수행하게 된다. 노드가 전송하는 응급 메시지는 충돌이 발생하게 되고 응급 메시지 전송을 위한 전송 지연을 만족하지 못하는 상황이 발생할 수 있으며 재전송으로 인한 에너지 낭비를 가져올 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해서 다음과 같이 WBAN 환경에서 데이터 종류와 전송률을 고려한 CSMA/CA 알고리즘 요소기술을 제안하였다. 성능평가 결과 제안한 MAC 프로토콜을 사용했을 때가 IEEE 802.15.6을 사용했을 때 보다 충돌 확률이 감소하여 패킷 전송 성공률과 에너지 효율이 개선된 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.419-427
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• 2015

There have been increases in the elderly population worldwide, and this has been accompanied by rapid growth in the health-care market, as there is an ongoing need to monitor the health of individuals. Wireless body area networks (WBANs) consist of wireless sensors attached on or inside the human body to monitor vital health-related problems, e.g., electrocardiograms (ECGs), electroencephalograms (EEGs), and electronystagmograms (ENGs). With WBANs, patients' vital signs are recorded by each sensor and sent to a coordinator. However, because of obstructions by the human body, sensors cannot always send the data to the coordinator, requiring them to transmit at higher power. Therefore, we need to consider the lifetime of the sensors given their required transmit power. In the IEEE 802.15.6 standard, the transmission topology functions as a one-hop star plus one topology. In order to obtain a high throughput, we reduce the transmit power of the sensors and maintain equity for all sensors. We propose the multiple-hop transmission for WBANs based on the IEEE 802.15.6 carrier-sense multiple-access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) protocol. We calculate the throughput and variance of the transmit power by performing simulations, and we discuss the results obtained using the proposed theorems.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1462-1476
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• 2017

The current literature on discrete-time Markov chain (DTMC) based analysis of IEEE 802.15.6 MAC protocols for wireless body area networks (WBANs), do not consider the ACK timeout state, wherein the colliding nodes check the ill fate of their transmissions, while other contending nodes perform backoff check that slot as usual. In this paper, our DTMC model accurately captures the carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) mechanism of IEEE 802.15.6 medium access control (MAC) and allows the contending nodes performing backoff to utilize the ACK timeout slot during collisions. The compared rigorous results are obtained by considering a non-ideal channel in non-saturation conditions, and CSMA/CA parameters pertaining to UWB PHY of IEEE 802.15.6 MAC protocols.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.5835-5854
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• 2017

The implementation of IEEE 802.15.6 in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is contention based. Meanwhile, IEEE 802.15.4 MAC provides limited 16 channels in the Superframe structure, making it unfit for N heterogeneous nature of patient's data. Also, the Beacon-enabled Carrier-Sense Multiple Access/Collision-Avoidance (CSMA/CA) scheduling access scheme in WBAN, allocates Contention-free Period (CAP) channels to emergency and non-emergency Biomedical Sensors (BMSs) using contention mechanism, increasing repetition in rounds. This reduces performance of the MAC protocol causing higher data collisions and delay, low data reliability, BMSs packet retransmissions and increased energy consumption. Moreover, it has no traffic differentiation method. This paper proposes a Low-delay Traffic-Aware Medium Access Control (LTA-MAC) protocol to provide sufficient channels with a higher bandwidth, and allocates them individually to non-emergency and emergency data. Also, a Contention Differentiated Adaptive Slot Allocation CSMA-CA (CDASA-CSMA/CA) for scheduling access scheme is proposed to reduce repetition in rounds, and assists in channels allocation to BMSs. Furthermore, an On-demand (OD) slot in the LTA-MAC to resolve the patient's data drops in the CSMA/CA scheme due to exceeding of threshold values in contentions is introduced. Simulation results demonstrate advantages of the proposed schemes over the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC and CSMA/CA scheme in terms of success rate, packet delivery delay, and energy consumption.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.4436-4452
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• 2015

The IEEE 802.15.6 standard is introduced to satisfy all the requirements for monitoring systems operating in, on, or around the human body. In this paper, analytical models are developed for evaluating the performance of the IEEE 802.15.6 CSMA/CA-based medium access control protocol for wireless body area networks (WBAN) under unsaturation condition. We employ a three-dimensional Markov chain to model the backoff procedure, and an M/G/1/K queuing system to describe the packet queues in the buffer. The throughput and delay performances of WBAN operating in the beacon mode are analyzed in heterogeneous network comprised of different user priorities. Simulation results are included to demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed analytical model.