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Seamless Interworking Architecture for WBAN in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with QoS Guarantees

Journal of Medical Systems volume 35, pages 1313–1321 (2011)Cite this article

Abstract

The IEEE 802.15.6 standard is a communication standard optimized for low-power and short-range in-body/on-body nodes to serve a variety of medical, consumer electronics and entertainment applications. Providing high mobility with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) to a WBAN user in heterogeneous wireless networks is a challenging task. A WBAN uses a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) to gather data from body sensors and forwards it to a remote server through wide range wireless networks. In this paper, we present a coexistence study of WBAN with Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) and Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs). The main issue is interworking of WBAN in heterogenous wireless networks including seamless handover, QoS, emergency services, cooperation and security. We propose a Seamless Interworking Architecture (SIA) for WBAN in heterogenous wireless networks based on a cost function. The cost function is based on power consumption and data throughput costs. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms typical approaches in terms of throughput, delay and packet loss rate.

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This research was supported by MKE (Ministry of Knowledge and Economy), Korea, Under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency) (NIPA-2010-C1090-1011-0007) and by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST)(No.2010-0018116).

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    Pervez Khan, Niamat Ullah, Sana Ullah & Kyung Sup Kwak

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Khan, P., Ullah, N., Ullah, S. et al. Seamless Interworking Architecture for WBAN in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with QoS Guarantees. J Med Syst 35, 1313–1321 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-011-9756-4

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Keywords

  • WBAN
  • WLAN
  • WiMAX
  • QoS