Inter-BAN Interference Mitigation: A Correlated Equilibrium Perspective

A Body Area Network (BAN) is a wireless network of wearable or implantable computing devices. A BAN typically consists of several miniaturized radio-enabled body sensor/actuator that communicate with a single coordinator. Medical applications usually impose stringent constraints on the BAN operation...

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Published inStudies in health technology and informatics Vol. 200; p. 111
Main Authors Marbukh, Vladimir, Sayrafian, Kamran, Barbi, Martina, Alasti, Mehdi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands 2014
Subjects
Computer Communication Networks
Computer Simulation
Equipment Failure Analysis
Humans
Telemetry
Wireless Technology
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Summary:A Body Area Network (BAN) is a wireless network of wearable or implantable computing devices. A BAN typically consists of several miniaturized radio-enabled body sensor/actuator that communicate with a single coordinator. Medical applications usually impose stringent constraints on the BAN operational reliability, quality of service, and power consumption. However, as there is no coordination among multiple co-located BANs, cross-interference could make achieving these objectives a challenging problem. Assuming Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) at each BAN, this paper investigates the ability of regret matching based transmission scheduling algorithm to ease the impact of inter-BAN interference. This scheduling algorithm uses pattern of past interference for implicit coordination between different BAN transmissions. Simulation results demonstrate potential benefits of the proposed scheme for inter-BAN interference mitigation.
ISSN:0926-9630
DOI:10.3233/978-1-61499-393-3-111