Simulation Analysis of Medium Access Techniques

This paper presents comparison of Access Techniques used in Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). Comparison is performed between Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA), Pure ALOHA and Slotted ALOHA (S-ALOHA). Performance metrics used for comparison are throughput (T), delay (D) and offered load (G). The main goal for comparison is to show which technique gives highest Throughput and lowest Delay with increase in Load. Energy efficiency is major issue in WBAN that is why there is need to know which technique performs best for energy conservation and also gives minimum delay.Comment: NGWMN with 7th IEEE International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Com- munication and Applications (BWCCA 2012), Victoria, Canada, 201

The Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks and Routing Strategies: Nomenclature and Review of Literature

WBASN is an effective solution that has been proposed in terms of improving the solutions and there are varied benefits that have been achieved from the usage of WBASN solutions in communication, healthcare domain. From the review of stats on rising number of wireless devices and solutions that are coming up which is embraced by the people as wearable devices, implants for medical diagnostic solutions, etc. reflect upon the growing demand for effective models. However, the challenge is about effective performance of such solutions with optimal efficiency. Due to certain intrinsic factors like numerous standards that are available, and also due to the necessity for identifying the best solutions that are based on application requirements. Some of the key issues that have to be considered in the process of WBASN are about the impacts that are taking place from the wireless medium, the lifetime of batteries in the WBASN devices and the other significant condition like the coexistence of the systems among varied other wireless networks that are constituted in the proximity. In this study, scores of models that has been proposed pertaining to MAC protocols for WBASN solutions has been reviewed to understand the efficacy of the existing systems, and a scope for process improvement has been explored for conducting in detail research and developing a solution

Cooperative energy harvesting-adaptive MAC protocol for WBANs

In this paper, we introduce a cooperative medium access control (MAC) protocol, named cooperative energy harvesting (CEH)-MAC, that adapts its operation to the energy harvesting (EH) conditions in wireless body area networks (WBANs). In particular, the proposed protocol exploits the EH information in order to set an idle time that allows the relay nodes to charge their batteries and complete the cooperation phase successfully. Extensive simulations have shown that CEH-MAC significantly improves the network performance in terms of throughput, delay and energy efficiency compared to the cooperative operation of the baseline IEEE 802.15.6 standard.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Kablosuz vücut alan ağları için servis kalitesi destekli yeni bir ortam erişim kontrol protokolü

06.03.2018 tarihli ve 30352 sayılı Resmi Gazetede yayımlanan “Yükseköğretim Kanunu İle Bazı Kanun Ve Kanun Hükmünde Kararnamelerde Değişiklik Yapılması Hakkında Kanun” ile 18.06.2018 tarihli “Lisansüstü Tezlerin Elektronik Ortamda Toplanması, Düzenlenmesi ve Erişime Açılmasına İlişkin Yönerge” gereğince tam metin erişime açılmıştır.Kablosuz Vücut Alan Ağları (KVAA) kişisel alanda kullanılan, kablosuz ortamda haberleşen, algılayıcı düğümlerin oluşturduğu ağ modeli olarak tanımlanmaktadır. KVAA'lar medikal uygulamalar başta olmak üzere çok yaygın kullanım alanına sahiptir. Özellikle medikal uygulamalardaki verilerin hayati önem taşımasından dolayı KVAA'larda servis kalitesini sağlamak önemli bir konu haline gelmiştir. Bu yüzden KVAA'larda servis kalitesi üzerine birçok çalışma gerçekleştirilmiştir. Literatürdeki yapılan çalışmaların en büyük eksikliği, bir standarda sahip olmadıklarından dolayı farklı çalışma parametrelerine sahip olmalarıdır. Değişik çalışmaların ortak bir standart ile düzenlenmesi ihtiyacı ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu probleme çözüm bulmak amacıyla, tez çalışmasında kişisel sağlık bilgisinin standardını tanımlayan, ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) & IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) gibi dünyanın en önemli iki kurumunun desteklediği ISO/IEEE 11073 standardını esas alan bir Ortam Erişim Kontrol (OEK) protokolü geliştirilmiştir. Tez çalışmasında, önerilen OEK protokolünün tasarımında ISO/IEEE 11073 standartlarına göre servis kalitesi desteğini sağlamak amacıyla katmanlararası mimariden yararlanılmıştır. Önerilen tez çalışmasında servis kalitesi sağlamak amacıyla yeni bir zaman-dilimi tahsis şeması, öncelik mekanizması, kabul kontrol mekanizması ve katmanlararası yapı geliştirilmiştir. Geliştirilen OEK protokolünün modellenmesi ve benzetimi OPNET Modeler yazılımı kullanılarak yapılmıştır. Önerilen OEK protokolü, IEEE 802.15.4 ve IEEE 802.15.6 gibi standart haline gelmiş protokoller ve yakın zamanda literatürde sunulan çalışmalar ile karşılaştırılmıştır. Yapılan değerlendirmelere göre, geliştirilen OEK protokolünü diğer protokollerden uçtan-uca gecikmeye göre 5-6 kat daha az gecikme, 3-4 kata kadar daha yüksek iş çıkarma oranı elde edilmiştir ve %0.0001 paket kayıp oranı başarısı sağlanmıştır.Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are defined as network model that consisting of the sensor nodes, communicating wirelessly and used in personal area. WBANs have a very widespread usage area in medical applications principally. Especially, supporting Quality of Service (QoS) has become an important issue in WBANs because of the vital importance of data in medical applications. Therefore, many studies were performed on the QoS in WBANs. The most lack of the studies in literature is having different operating parameters due to the absence of any standard. The requirement of standardization for various studies has emerged. In order to find out a solution to this problem, we present a ISO/IEEE 11073-based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol in this thesis that standard is supporting by two large associations as ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) & IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and defines standard of personal health information. In this thesis, the proposed MAC protocol utilizes a cross-layer architecture due to support QoS according to ISO/IEEE 11073 standard. In order to provide QoS, a new slot allocation scheme, a priority mechanism, an admission control mechanism and a cross-layer architecture are developed in the proposed thesis. The developed MAC protocol has been modelled and simulated by OPNET Modeler software. The proposed MAC protocol is compared to the standard technologies of IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.15.6, and recent protocols that is presented in the literature. According to the evaluations, the developed MAC protocol has better results for end-to-end delay is about 5-6 times lower latency, 3-4 times higher throughput then other protocols and achieves %0.0001 packet loss ratio