Abstract: This paper provided a general study of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) in health monitoring system as well as the study of the application of wearable and implanted Bio-Medical-Sensors (BMS) which are used to monitor the vital signs of a patient in early detection. Energy efficiency is a significant issue in WBAN which can be achieved by reducing the overhead of control packets, prioritizing sensor-nodes and sink-node selection. Moreover, uncertainty in network topologies, such as distance and link affect between sensor-nodes occurs due to the mobility of human. In this research, we propose a scheme to reduce the overhead of control packets and prioritizing the threshold values of vital signs by assigning low and high transmission power with enhanced IEEE802.15.6 CSMA/CA as well as introduce a Mobility Link Table (MLT) for selecting a sink-node to communicate with the coordinator. Compare it with existing IEEE802.15.6 CSMA/CA technique and results shows the proposed techniques regarding mean power consumption, network delay, network throughput.

Ansar Munir Shah, Abdelzahir Abdelmaboud, Khalid Mahmood, Mahmood ul Hassan and Muhammad Kashif Saeed, “eHealth WBAN: Energy-Efficient and Priority-Based Enhanced IEEE802.15.6 CSMA/CA MAC Protocol” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 9(4), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090415

@article{Shah2018,
title = {eHealth WBAN: Energy-Efficient and Priority-Based Enhanced IEEE802.15.6 CSMA/CA MAC Protocol},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090415},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090415},
year = {2018},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {9},
number = {4},
author = {Ansar Munir Shah and Abdelzahir Abdelmaboud and Khalid Mahmood and Mahmood ul Hassan and Muhammad Kashif Saeed}
}