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Emergency Message Transmission Protocol using CSMA/TDMA in Medical Body Area Networks(MBANs)

Medical Body Area Networks(MBAN)에서 CSMA/TDMA를 이용한 긴급 메시지 전송 프로토콜

  • Kim, Kyung-Jun (Department of Radio Mobile Communication Engineering, Honam University)
  • 김경준 (호남대학교 전파이동통신공학과)
  • Received : 2009.03.13
  • Accepted : 2009.04.30
  • Published : 2009.04.30
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Abstract

In the latest date, medical body area networks (MBANs) are emerging as a new technology for diagnosis the human body. MBANs in the health care fields are based on short-range and low-power (e.g. ubiquitous computing) among small-sized devices, and have been used by means of medical services. In this paper, we proposed an emergency message transmission protocol using carrier sense multiple access/time division multiple access in MBANs. This scheme focuses on dependability and power-efficiency. In order to increase the reliability of the transmission, this scheme modified a MCTA slot of IEEE 802.15.3 standard to a SR-MCTA slot. SR-MCTA slot is assigned by MBAN coordinator according to requesting terminal nodes. The method, having the priority of transmission, occurs a collision packet randomly. Results from this proposed solution revel that reservation-based TDMA medical body area network(MBAN) protocol for transmitting emergency message was improved in terms of transmission delay.

최근, Medical Body Area Networks (MBAN)는 사람의 인체를 진단하기 위한 새로운 기술로서 주목받고 있다. MBAN은 소형, 저 전력, 단거리 무선통신 기술을 의료(medical)분야에 적용한 의료 네트워크 이다. 본 논문은 MBAN에서 긴급 메시지 전송시 패킷 간 충돌과 IEEE 802.15.3이 가지는 전송대기 시간에 의해 발생하는 전송지연을 개선하기 위해 Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Time Division Multiple Access를 이용한 프로토콜을 제안하였다. 제안하는 프로토콜은 전력의 효율성 및 신뢰성을 개선하기 위해, IEEE 802.15.3의 MCTA를 MBAN에서 적용 가능한 SR-MCTA로 변형하여 전송의 신뢰성 및 전력 사용의 효율성을 높였다. 제안하는 프로토콜에서 SR-MCTA 슬롯은 단말 디바이스의 요청에 의해 MBAN 코디네이터가 할당하며, 할당하는 방법은 현재 슬롯에서 긴급 패킷이 발생할 때 임의의 충돌 패킷을 발생시켜 패킷을 획득하는 방법을 사용한다. 제안하는 프로토콜의 성능을 평가하기 위해 전송대기 시간을 평가할 수 있는 수식을 유도하고, 또한 이러한 결과를 이용하여 시뮬레이션 하였다. 시뮬레이션의 결과는 우리가 제안하는 프로토콜에서는 전송지연이 개선됨을 보였다.

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