Towards achieving efficient MAC protocols for WBAN-enabled IoT technology: a review
2021 (English)In: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, ISSN 1687-1472, E-ISSN 1687-1499, Vol. 2021, no 1, article id 60Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Internet of things (IoT) is a concept that is currently gaining a lot of popularity as a result of its potential to be incorporated into many heterogeneous systems. Because of its diversity, integrating IoT is conceivable in almost all fields, including the healthcare sector. For instance, a promising technology in the healthcare sector known as wireless body area network (WBAN) could be integrated with the IoT to enhance its productivity. However, in order to guarantee the optimization of the operation of the healthcare applications facilitated by the WBAN-enabled IoT technology, there must be enough support from all the different protocol stack layers so as to satisfy the critical quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of the WBAN systems. Consequently, the medium access control (MAC) protocol has recently been gaining lots of attention in the area of WBANs due to its ability to manage and coordinate when a shared communication channel can be accessed. For the purpose of achieving efficient MAC protocols for WBAN-enabled IoT technology, this paper investigates some key MAC protocols that could be exploited in WBANs based on their characteristics, service specifications, technical issues such as energy wastage issues, and possible technical solutions were provided to enhance energy efficiency, channel utilization, data transmission rate, and dealy rate. Also, these MAC protocols were grouped and compared based on short- and long-range communication standards. Following this, future directions and open research issues are pointed out. © 2021, The Author(s).
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021. Vol. 2021, no 1, article id 60
Keywords [en]
5G technology, Communication standards, Energy efficiency, IoT, MAC protocols, WBAN, Health care, Medium access control, Quality of service, Wireless local area networks (WLAN), Data transmission rates, Health care application, Internet of Things (IOT), Long-range communications, Medium access control protocols, Service specifications, Shared communication channels, Wireless body area network, Internet of things
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-43490DOI: 10.1186/s13638-021-01919-1ISI: 000631526600004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85102769573OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-43490DiVA, id: diva2:1604177
2021-10-192021-10-192021-10-19Bibliographically approved