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A comprehensive survey of wireless body area networks on PHY, MAC, and network layers solutions
Recent advances in microelectronics and integrated circuits, system-on-chip design, wireless communication and intelligent low-power sensors have allowed the realization of a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). A WBAN is a collection of low-power, miniaturized, invasive/non-invasive lightweight wireless sensor nodes that monitor the human body functions and the surrounding environment. In addition, it supports a number of innovative and interesting applications such as ubiquitous healthcare, entertainment, interactive gaming, and military applications. In this paper, the fundamental mechanisms of WBAN including architecture and topology, wireless implant communication, low-power Medium Access Control (MAC) and routing protocols are reviewed. A comprehensive study of the proposed technologies for WBAN at Physical (PHY), MAC, and Network layers is presented and many useful solutions are discussed for each layer. Finally, numerous WBAN applications are highlighted
Source Delay in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Source delay, the time a packet experiences in its source node, serves as a
fundamental quantity for delay performance analysis in networks. However, the
source delay performance in highly dynamic mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is
still largely unknown by now. This paper studies the source delay in MANETs
based on a general packet dispatching scheme with dispatch limit (PD-
for short), where a same packet will be dispatched out up to times by its
source node such that packet dispatching process can be flexibly controlled
through a proper setting of . We first apply the Quasi-Birth-and-Death (QBD)
theory to develop a theoretical framework to capture the complex packet
dispatching process in PD- MANETs. With the help of the theoretical
framework, we then derive the cumulative distribution function as well as mean
and variance of the source delay in such networks. Finally, extensive
simulation and theoretical results are provided to validate our source delay
analysis and illustrate how source delay in MANETs are related to network
parameters.Comment: 11page
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