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Emergency traffic adaptive MAC protocol for wireless body area networks based on prioritization

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  • Farhan Masud
  • Abdul Hanan Abdullah
  • Gaddafi Abdul-Salaam

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This paper proposes an emergency Traffic Adaptive MAC (eTA-MAC) protocol for WBANs based on Prioritization. The main advantage of the protocol is to provide traffic ranking through a Traffic Class Prioritization-based slotted-Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance (TCP-CSMA/CA) scheme. The emergency traffic is handled through Emergency Traffic Class Provisioning-based slotted-CSMA/CA (ETCP-CSMA/CA) scheme. The emergency-based traffic adaptivity is provided through Emergency-based Traffic Adaptive slotted-CSMA/CA (ETA-CSMA/CA) scheme. The TCP-CSMA/CA scheme assigns a distinct, minimized and prioritized backoff period range to each traffic class in every backoff during channel access in Contention Access Period (CAP). The ETCP-CSMA/CA scheme delivers the sporadic emergency traffic that occurs at a single or multiple BMSN(s) instantaneously, with minimum delay and packet loss. It does this while being aware of normal traffic in the CAP. Then, the ETA-CSMA/CA scheme creates a balance between throughput and energy in the sporadic emergency situation with energy preservation of normal traffic BMSNs. The proposed protocol is evaluated using NS-2 simulator. The results indicate that the proposed protocol is better than the existing Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols by 86% decrease in packet delivery delay, 61% increase in throughput, and a 76% decrease in energy consumption.

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  • Farhan Masud & Abdul Hanan Abdullah & Gaddafi Abdul-Salaam, 2019. "Emergency traffic adaptive MAC protocol for wireless body area networks based on prioritization," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(12), pages 1-32, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0225518
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225518
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    1. Innocent Uzougbo Onwuegbuzie & Shukor Abd Razak & Ismail Fauzi Isnin & Tasneem S J Darwish & Arafat Al-dhaqm, 2020. "Optimized backoff scheme for prioritized data in wireless sensor networks: A class of service approach," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(8), pages 1-31, August.

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