Abstract

Body area networks (BANs) are systems of wearable computing devices for long-term monitoring of personal health care. BAN is an emerging technology for the worldwide ageing population. In the BAN system, the transceiver is the most energy-consuming part of a sensor node and radio transmission in the vicinity of the human body is highly lossy and inefficient. Therefore, the energy of the sensor node constraints the life cycle and quality of service of the network; consequently, low-cost protocol shaves attracted wide interest. This study proposes a frame structure model of a self-adaptive guard band protocol, which introduces a GB in each time slot according to the allowed maximum time drift of the crystal, adaptively adjusts the value of the GB based on the actual time drift, and then ensures that the node simultaneously maintains the sleeping state and synchronisation with the coordinator during beacon transmission, thus reducing the energy consumption.

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