PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF TRAFFIC SENSITIVE WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS

The cooperation of micro-electronics, wireless communications, integrated circuits and sensor networks have led to rise of wireless body area networks (wbans). the aim of wbans is to keep a human body under control by means of a set of small-size, lightweight, and low-power sensor nodes placed in, on, or around the human body. the wbans are also used in a number of new applications namely health monitoring, entertainment, sports, and military applications. the sensor nodes in wbans have limited energy resources as a result of communicating with each other wirelessly. therefore, the medium access control protocols for wbans must be energy efficient protocols. also, wban’s importance of having the different data traffics has increased determination of operation sequence at the coordinator nodes. in this study, data traffic sensitive wban is proposed. end to end delay and throughput results are examined for performance evaluation.