A self-organized dynamic clustering method and its multiple access mechanism for multiple WBANs

Due to its wide application range and attractive features, wireless body area networks (WBANs) is considered as a revolutionary technology, which is envisaged to change how people manage and think about their health and their life styles. In this paper, we propose a self-organized dynamic clustering (SDC) method and its multiple access mechanism to mitigate the interference and improve the QoS in multiple WBANs environment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that focuses on the spectrum allocation for multiple WBANs. We borrow the concepts of cell and cluster from cellular networks to allocate the channels for different WBANs. The clustering is self-organized to improve the data transmission for intra-WBAN communication by the information exchange via inter-WBAN communication. Additionally, based on the cluster architecture, an inter-WBAN relaying (IWR) protocol for packets with low privacy or high reliability is also investigated. The simulation results show that SDC has better signal to interference ratio compared with existing framework. Besides, SDC and IWR also provide better QoS performance in terms of higher data packet delivery ratio and lower packet delay

4th International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems

This book brings together papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems, which provides a venue to disseminate the latest developments and to discuss the interactions and links between these multidisciplinary fields. Spanning topics ranging from Communications, Signal Processing and Systems, this book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, researchers and engineers from academia and industry as well as government employees (such as NSF, DOD, DOE, etc)

An adaptive relay node selection algorithm based on opportunity

Abstract The collaborative relay network plays an important role in a smart grid application thanks to its high efficiency. However, energy and bandwidth management need to be further improved to extend network life cycle and reduce potential network segmentation. Aiming to balance the network energy consumption, this paper proposes an adaptive relay node selection algorithm based on the opportunity (OAR). In OAR, the potential relay nodes are chosen to act as candidates based on bit error rate (BER) estimation, and then, the relay is adaptively and opportunistically determined for packet forwarding. Residual energy is considered to avoid fast energy exhaustion for some certain nodes. The simulation results show that the proposed OAR algorithm improves the network performance by deferring the earliest death time of the nodes and extending the network life cycle

3rd International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems

The Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems provides the state-of-art developments of communications, signal processing, and systems. This book is a collection of contributions from the conference and covers such topics as wireless communications, networks, systems, and signal processing for communications. The conference was held July 2014 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Second International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems

The Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems provides the state-of-art developments of Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems. The conference covered such topics as wireless communications, networks, systems, signal processing for communications. This book is a collection of contributions coming out of The Second International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems (CSPS) held September 2013 in Tianjin, China

The Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems

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2012 Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems

Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems is a collection of contributions coming out of the International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems (CSPS) held October 2012. This book provides the state-of-art developments of Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems, and their interactions in multidisciplinary fields, such as Smart Grid. The book also examines Radar Systems, Sensor Networks, Radar Signal Processing, Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems and Applications. Written by experts and students in the fields of Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems