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Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs
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In this paper, we introduce a cooperative medium access control (MAC) protocol, named cooperative energy harvesting (CEH)-MAC, that adapts its operation to the energy harvesting (EH) conditions in wireless body area networks (WBANs). In particular, the proposed protocol exploits the EH information in order to set an idle time that allows the relay nodes to charge their batteries and complete the cooperation phase successfully. Extensive simulations have shown that CEH-MAC significantly improves the network performance in terms of throughput, delay and energy efficiency compared to the cooperative operation of the baseline IEEE 802.15.6 standard.
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ESTEVES, Volker, et al. Cooperative Energy Harvesting-Adaptive MAC Protocol for WBANs. Sensors. 2015. Vol. 15, num. 6, pags. 12635-12650. ISSN 1424-8220. [consulted: 9 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/67531