TY - GEN
T1 - Efficient techniques for improving coexistence problem in wireless body area network
AU - Islam, Md Zahirul
AU - Alam, Mohammad Shah
AU - Moni, Shafika Showkat
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2017/2/21
Y1 - 2017/2/21
N2 - Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a time critical remote network where various physiological information of patients are sent through satisfying stringent QoS requirements. However, performance of WBAN may degrade severely due to the coexistence problem, a well known phenomenon where different wireless channel access technologies share the overlapped frequency bands. In this paper, the coexistence problem of WBAN is addressed in terms of mutual interference mitigation and cross interference mitigation. A fuzzy logic based algorithm is proposed to detect the mutual interference and to mitigate it. Furthermore, a channel hopping technique is investigated to mitigate the cross interference problem. Simulation results show that our proposed techniques effectively mitigate the coexistence problem in WBAN scenarios.
AB - Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a time critical remote network where various physiological information of patients are sent through satisfying stringent QoS requirements. However, performance of WBAN may degrade severely due to the coexistence problem, a well known phenomenon where different wireless channel access technologies share the overlapped frequency bands. In this paper, the coexistence problem of WBAN is addressed in terms of mutual interference mitigation and cross interference mitigation. A fuzzy logic based algorithm is proposed to detect the mutual interference and to mitigate it. Furthermore, a channel hopping technique is investigated to mitigate the cross interference problem. Simulation results show that our proposed techniques effectively mitigate the coexistence problem in WBAN scenarios.
KW - Cross interference
KW - GTS
KW - Mutual interference
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85016171062&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICCITECHN.2016.7860160
DO - 10.1109/ICCITECHN.2016.7860160
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85016171062
T3 - 19th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2016
SP - 13
EP - 18
BT - 19th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 19th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2016
Y2 - 18 December 2016 through 20 December 2016
ER -