title: A Fast Channel Assignment Scheme for Emergency Handling in Wireless Body Area Networks.
abstract: Ubiquitous healthcare is a promising technology that has attracted significant attention in recent years; this has led to the realization of wireless body area networks (WBANs). For designing a robust WBAN system, the WBAN has to solve the drawbacks of wireless technology. Also, a WBAN has to support immediate, reliable data transmission for medical services during emergencies. Hence, this study proposes a new MAC superframe structure that can handle emergencies by delivering strongly correlated regular data to a caretaker, within a certain time threshold. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed MAC protocol achieves low latency and high throughput.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju 61452, Korea. sabitanepal2002@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Sabita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nepal
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju 61452, Korea. amod13@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Amod
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pudasani
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju 61452, Korea. sjshin@chosun.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Seokjoo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shin
keywords: MAC frame structure; WBAN; correlated traffic; emergency handling