Adaptive Medium Access Control Protocol for Dynamic Medical Traffic With Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Body Area Network

The performance of a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) depends on the Quality of Service (QoS) and energy efficiency. The traffic generated by WBAN is heterogeneous in nature, and consists of both periodic and emergency events. One crucial challenge in designing a WBAN Medium Access Control (MAC) pr...

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Main Authors: Wan Haszerila Wan Hassan, Sohail Sarang, Darmawaty Mohd Ali, Goran M. Stojanovic, Wan Norsyafizan W. Muhamad, Norsuzila Ya'acob
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author Wan Haszerila Wan Hassan
Sohail Sarang
Darmawaty Mohd Ali
Goran M. Stojanovic
Wan Norsyafizan W. Muhamad
Norsuzila Ya'acob
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Sohail Sarang
Darmawaty Mohd Ali
Goran M. Stojanovic
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description The performance of a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) depends on the Quality of Service (QoS) and energy efficiency. The traffic generated by WBAN is heterogeneous in nature, and consists of both periodic and emergency events. One crucial challenge in designing a WBAN Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is guaranteeing high-reliability transmission while satisfying diverse QoS requirements. Therefore, this paper proposes a QoS-aware MAC protocol named the Adaptive MAC (ADT-MAC) that accommodates dynamic medical traffic by addressing emergency and periodic traffic requirements. ADT-MAC utilizes a hybrid and adaptive superframe structure based on the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. Additionally, an M/M/1 queuing algorithm with a non-preemptive priority is modeled using SimEvents in MATLAB to validate the packet delay of the priority queues. The proposed ADT-MAC protocol is simulated using Castalia and OMNeT++ to evaluate its performance against state-of-the-art MAC protocols. Simulation findings reveal that ADT-MAC achieves lower packet delay, higher PDR, and increased network throughput while reducing energy consumption compared to its benchmarks. Furthermore, the result of packet delay from priority queues validates the accuracy of the proposed ADT-MAC and queueing algorithm. The two-fold simulation approach using Castalia and SimEvents demonstrated that the packet delay for each priority level remains below the 125 ms threshold set by the IEEE 802.15.6 specifications.
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spelling doaj-art-6e24599aeec947e6a18cbe4866d6eab32024-12-21T00:00:42ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362024-01-011219146119147910.1109/ACCESS.2024.351519710792881Adaptive Medium Access Control Protocol for Dynamic Medical Traffic With Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Body Area NetworkWan Haszerila Wan Hassan0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0461-5590Sohail Sarang1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9356-4988Darmawaty Mohd Ali2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5652-4052Goran M. Stojanovic3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2098-189XWan Norsyafizan W. Muhamad4Norsuzila Ya'acob5Wireless Communication Technology Group, School of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, MalaysiaFaculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, SerbiaWireless Communication Technology Group, School of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, MalaysiaFaculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, SerbiaWireless Communication Technology Group, School of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, MalaysiaWireless Communication Technology Group, School of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, MalaysiaThe performance of a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) depends on the Quality of Service (QoS) and energy efficiency. The traffic generated by WBAN is heterogeneous in nature, and consists of both periodic and emergency events. One crucial challenge in designing a WBAN Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is guaranteeing high-reliability transmission while satisfying diverse QoS requirements. Therefore, this paper proposes a QoS-aware MAC protocol named the Adaptive MAC (ADT-MAC) that accommodates dynamic medical traffic by addressing emergency and periodic traffic requirements. ADT-MAC utilizes a hybrid and adaptive superframe structure based on the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. Additionally, an M/M/1 queuing algorithm with a non-preemptive priority is modeled using SimEvents in MATLAB to validate the packet delay of the priority queues. The proposed ADT-MAC protocol is simulated using Castalia and OMNeT++ to evaluate its performance against state-of-the-art MAC protocols. Simulation findings reveal that ADT-MAC achieves lower packet delay, higher PDR, and increased network throughput while reducing energy consumption compared to its benchmarks. Furthermore, the result of packet delay from priority queues validates the accuracy of the proposed ADT-MAC and queueing algorithm. The two-fold simulation approach using Castalia and SimEvents demonstrated that the packet delay for each priority level remains below the 125 ms threshold set by the IEEE 802.15.6 specifications.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10792881/Quality of serviceenergy efficiencyadaptive superframequeuing algorithm
spellingShingle Wan Haszerila Wan Hassan
Sohail Sarang
Darmawaty Mohd Ali
Goran M. Stojanovic
Wan Norsyafizan W. Muhamad
Norsuzila Ya'acob
Adaptive Medium Access Control Protocol for Dynamic Medical Traffic With Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Body Area Network
IEEE Access
Quality of service
energy efficiency
adaptive superframe
queuing algorithm
title Adaptive Medium Access Control Protocol for Dynamic Medical Traffic With Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Body Area Network
title_full Adaptive Medium Access Control Protocol for Dynamic Medical Traffic With Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Body Area Network
title_fullStr Adaptive Medium Access Control Protocol for Dynamic Medical Traffic With Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Body Area Network
title_full_unstemmed Adaptive Medium Access Control Protocol for Dynamic Medical Traffic With Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Body Area Network
title_short Adaptive Medium Access Control Protocol for Dynamic Medical Traffic With Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Body Area Network
title_sort adaptive medium access control protocol for dynamic medical traffic with quality of service provisioning in wireless body area network
topic Quality of service
energy efficiency
adaptive superframe
queuing algorithm
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10792881/
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