TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Comprehensive Review of Medium Access Control Protocols for WBAN
AU - Umamaheswari, T. AU - Anand, Sheila 
JO  - Asian Journal of Information Technology
VL  - 12
IS  - 8
SP  - 273
EP  - 285
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1682-3915
DO  - ajit.2013.273.285
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2013.273.285
KW  - Wireless
KW  -sensor
KW  -network
KW  -protocol
KW  -MAC
KW  -WBAN
AB  - Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) promises a new healthcare 
  system through allowing inexpensive, unobtrusive and non-invasive monitoring 
  of human’s health-status. WBAN 
  comprises of tiny, lightweight, low-cost, intelligent wireless sensor devices 
  which are placed on key points of the human body and connected by means of a 
  wireless network. The vital physiological body parameters are sensed and sent 
  to remote servers for health care monitoring. WBAN can be connected to the remote 
  server by a range of telecommunication network such as WLAN, Wi-Fi or a dedicated 
  hospital network. Efficient MAC protocols are required to meet the major requirements 
  of low power consumptions and energy efficiency of the sensors. The MAC protocol 
  typically needs to address two issues: channel assignment to decide which channels 
  are to be used by which hosts and medium access to resolve the contention problem. 
  This study analyzes the existing MAC protocols for WBAN on different perspectives 
  such as throughput, delay and power. IEEE 802.15.6 the new standard for WBAN 
  has also been discussed.
ER  -