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Opportunistic Spectrum Allocation for Interference Mitigation Amongst Coexisting Wireless Body Area Networks

Authors:

Samaneh Movassaghi,

David B. Smith,

Mehran Abolhasan,

Abbas JamalipourAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 14, Issue 2

Article No.: 7, Pages 1 - 22

https://doi.org/10.1145/3139257

Published: 21 July 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are seen as the enabling technology for developing new generations of medical applications, such as remote health monitoring. As such it is expected that WBANs will predominantly transport mission-critical and delay sensitive data. A key strategy towards building a reliable WBAN is to ensure such networks are highly immune to interference. To achieve this, new and intelligent wireless spectrum allocation strategies are required not only to avoid interference, but also to make best-use of the limited available spectrum. This article presents a new spectrum allocation scheme referred to as Smart Channel Assignment (SCA), which maximizes the resource usage and transmission speed by deploying a partially-orthogonal channel assignment scheme between coexisting WBANs as well as offering a convenient tradeoff among spectral reuse efficiency, transmission rate, and outage. Detailed analytical studies verify that the proposed SCA strategy is robust to variations in channel conditions, increase in sensor node-density within each WBAN, and an increase in number of coexisting WBANs.

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Index Terms

Opportunistic Spectrum Allocation for Interference Mitigation Amongst Coexisting Wireless Body Area Networks
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Model development and analysis
      1. Model verification and validation
2. Networks
  1. Network algorithms
    1. Control path algorithms
      1. Network resources allocation

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ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks Volume 14, Issue 2

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DOI:10.1145/3203093

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Published: 21 July 2018

Accepted: 01 October 2017

Revised: 01 October 2017

Received: 01 May 2016

Published in TOSN Volume 14, Issue 2

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Cai YDong SMu J(2024)Intelligent Clustering Coloring Algorithm Based on K-means++ Algorithm in WBANsArtificial Intelligence in China10.1007/978-981-99-7545-7_31(297-303)Online publication date: 23-Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7545-7_31
Ahmad IAbul Hassan MUllah Khan IFarhatullah (2023)Survey of IoMT Interference Mitigation Techniques for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)Machine Intelligence for Internet of Medical Things: Applications and Future Trends10.2174/9789815080445123020008(64-82)Online publication date: 9-May-2023
https://doi.org/10.2174/9789815080445123020008

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