Power Saving MAC Protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)

Two important criteria of wireless body area networks (WBANs) are low power consumption and delay. These can be met by designing efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols. In this paper, two TDMA-based MAC protocols proposed. The first protocol, TM–MAC makes use only a main radio. second proposed TWM–MAC WUR alongside the compared with different categories standard it is shown that they outperform ones improving consumes 55% less than Scheduled Channel Polling (SCP–MAC) protocol for high traffic scenario on high-rate platform while TM-MAC 85% SCP–MAC. For scenario, performs 53.5% better SCP–MAC 77.5% very (VLPM) low-rate platforms respectively. An improvement in delay was observed situations. surpasses VLPM 81.1% terms latency 3.2% scenario.