A Hybrid and Secure Priority-Guaranteed MAC Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network
This paper introduces a hybrid and secure MAC protocol (PMAC) for WBAN. The PMAC protocol uses two contention access periods (CAPs) for accommodating normal and life-critical traffic and one contention-free period (CFP) for accommodating large amount of data packets. The priority-guaranteed CSMA/CA...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2014-02-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/481761 |