@incollection{, 8C2739A86705F6052F3C5A20F02C9E1C , author={{V.T.Venkateswarlu} and {Dr.P.V.Naganjaneyulu} and {Dr.D.N.RAO} and {Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology}}, journal={{Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology}}, journal={{GJCST}}0975-41720975-435010.34257/gjcst, address={Cambridge, United States}, publisher={Global Journals Organisation}1671930 } @incollection{b0, , title={{4: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (LR-WPANs)}} , author={{ Standard }} , journal={{Part}} 15 , year={2006} , publisher={IEEE} } @incollection{b1, , title={{IEEE standard for local and metropolitan area networks part 15.6: Wireless body area networks}} , booktitle={{Available}} , year={February 2012} 802 } @book{b2, , title={{Specification of the Bluetooth System version 4.0. Bluetooth SIG}} , year={June 2010} } @incollection{b3, , title={{Body area networks: A survey}} , author={{ MChen } and { SGonzalez } and { AVasilakos } and { HCao } and { VCLeung }} , booktitle={{Mobile networks and applications}} , year={2011} 16 } @incollection{b4, , title={{System architecture of a wireless body area sensor network for ubiquitous health monitoring}} , author={{ COtto } and { AMilenkovic } and { CSanders } and { EJovanov }} , journal={{Journal of mobile multimedia}} 1 4 , year={2006} } @incollection{b5, , title={{A study of MAC protocols for WBANs}} , author={{ SUllah } and { BShen } and { SMIslam } and { PKhan } and { SSaleem } and { KSup Kwak }} , journal={{Sensors}} 10 1 , year={2009} } @incollection{b6, , title={{Energyefficient multi-hop transmission in body area networks}} , author={{ HKwon } and { SLee }} , booktitle={{2009 IEEE 20th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2009. September} } @incollection{b7, , title={{A survey on wireless body area networks}} , author={{ BLatré } and { BBraem } and { IMoerman } and { CBlondia } and { PDemeester }} , journal={{Wireless Networks}} 17 1 , year={2011} } @incollection{b8, , title={{Body area sensor networks: Challenges and opportunities}} , author={{ MAHanson } and { HCPowellJr } and { ATBarth } and { KRinggenberg } and { BHCalhoun } and { JHAylor } and { JLach }} , journal={{Computer}} 42 1 58 , year={2009} } @incollection{b9, , title={{Modeling and analysis of multi-type failures in wireless body area networks with semi-Markov model}} , author={{ SWang } and { JTPark }} , journal={{IEEE Communications Letters}} 14 1 , year={2010} } @incollection{b10, , title={{A survey on body area network}} , author={{ JXing } and { YZhu }} , booktitle={{5th Int. Conf.on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCom '09)}} , year={Sept. 2009} } @incollection{b11, , title={{Channel model for body area network (BAN)}} , author={{ KYYazdandoost } and { KSayrafian-Pour }} , journal={{IEEE P802}} 15 , year={2009} } @incollection{b12, , title={{IEEE p802.15.6/d0 draft standard for body area network}} , journal={{IEEE Draft}} , year={2010} } @book{b13, , title={{IEEE P802. 15.6 D04 Draft Trial-Use Standard for Body Area Network}} , author={{ DLewis }} IEEE 802.15 WPAN , year={2010} } @book{b14, , title={{IEEE p802. 15-10 wireless personal area networks}} , year={July, 2011} } @book{b15, , title={{Tg6 technical requirements document (TRD)}} , author={{ BZhen } and { MPatel } and { SLee } and { EWon } and { AAstrin }} IEEE p802. 15-08-0644-09-0006 , year={2008} } @incollection{b16, , title={{Performance of piconet co-existence schemes in wireless body area networks}} , author={{ AZhang } and { DBSmith } and { DMiniutti } and { LWHanlen } and { DRodda } and { BGilbert }} , booktitle={{2010 IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2010. April} } @incollection{b17, , title={{Cochannel interference in body area networks with indoor measurements at 2.4 GHz: Distance-to-interferer is a poor estimate of received interference power}} , author={{ LHanlen } and { DMiniutti } and { DBSmith } and { DRodda } and { BGilbert }} , journal={{IJWIN}} 17 3-4 , year={2010} } @incollection{b18, , title={{UWB for noninvasive wireless body area networks: channel measurements and results}} , author={{ TZasowski } and { FAlthaus } and { MStager } and { AWittneben } and { GTroster }} , booktitle={{Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies, 2003 IEEE Conference on}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2003. November} } @incollection{b19, , title={{An energy analysis of IEEE 802.15. 6 scheduled access modes}} , author={{ CTachtatzis } and { FDi Franco } and { DCTracey } and { NFTimmons } and { JMorrison }} , booktitle={{2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2010. December} } @incollection{b20, , title={{Performance study of wireless body area network in medical environment}} , author={{ RCShah } and { M; MYarvis } and { SAriffin } and { NFisal } and { SSYusof } and { AAbdallah }} , booktitle={{Second Asia International Conference on 2006 2nd IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2006. September. 2008. May. 2008} , note={23. Sukor,} } @incollection{b21, , title={{Performance study of wireless body area network in medical environment}} , author={{ MSukor } and { SAriffin } and { NFisal } and { SSYusof } and { AAbdallah }} , booktitle={{Second Asia International Conference on Modelling &# x00026; Simulation}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2008. May. 2008} } @incollection{b22, , title={{Investigating network architectures for body sensor networks}} , author={{ ANatarajan } and { MMotani } and { BDe Silva } and { KKYap } and { KCChua }} , booktitle={{Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE international workshop on Systems and networking support for healthcare and assisted living environments}} the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE international workshop on Systems and networking support for healthcare and assisted living environments , publisher={ACM} , year={2007. June} } @incollection{b23, , title={{An overview of IEEE 802.15. 6 standard}} , author={{ KSKwak } and { SUllah } and { NUllah }} ISA- BEL 2010 , booktitle={{2010 3rd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2010. November} } @incollection{b24, , title={{A review of routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks}} , author={{ MAbolhasan } and { TWysocki } and { EDutkiewicz }} , journal={{Ad hoc networks}} 2 1 , year={2004} } @incollection{b25, , title={{A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks}} , author={{ KAkkaya } and { MYounis }} , journal={{Ad hoc networks}} 3 3 , year={2005} } @incollection{b26, , title={{Coloringbased inter-WBAN scheduling for mobile wireless body area networks}} , author={{ SHCheng } and { CYHuang }} , journal={{IEEE Transactions on parallel and distributed systems}} 24 2 , year={2013} } @incollection{b27, , title={{A comprehensive survey of wireless body area networks}} , author={{ SUllah } and { HHiggins } and { BBraem } and { BLatre } and { CBlondia } and { IMoerman } and { ..Kwak } and { KS }} , journal={{Journal of medical systems}} 36 3 , year={2012} } @book{b28, , title={{Wireless body area networks: Technology, implementation, and applications}} , author={{ MRYuce } and { JKhan }} , year={2011} , publisher={CRC Press} } @incollection{b29, , title={{Challenges in body area networks for healthcare: The MAC}} , author={{ ABoulis } and { DSmith } and { DMiniutti } and { LLibman } and { YTselishchev }} , journal={{IEEE Communications Magazine}} 50 5 , year={2012} } @incollection{b30, , title={{A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks}} , author={{ KAkkaya } and { MYounis }} , journal={{Ad hoc networks}} 3 3 , year={2005} } @incollection{b31, , title={{A review of routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks}} , author={{ MAbolhasan } and { TWysocki } and { EDutkiewicz }} , journal={{Ad hoc networks}} 2 1 , year={2004} } @incollection{b32, , title={{A comprehensive survey of wireless body area networks}} , author={{ SUllah } and { HHiggins } and { BBraem } and { BLatre } and { CBlondia } and { IMoerman } and { ..Kwak } and { KS }} , journal={{Journal of medical systems}} 36 3 , year={2012} } @incollection{b33, , title={{A survey on wireless body area networks}} , author={{ BLatré } and { BBraem } and { IMoerman } and { CBlondia } and { PDemeester }} , journal={{Wireless Networks}} 17 1 , year={2011} } @incollection{b34, , title={{Communication scheduling to minimize thermal effects of implanted biosensor networks in homogeneous tissue}} , author={{ QTang } and { NTummala } and { SKGupta } and { LSchwiebert }} , journal={{IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering}} 52 7 , year={2005} } @incollection{b35, , title={{Hotspot preventing routing algorithm for delay-sensitive biomedical sensor networks}} , author={{ ABag } and { MABassiouni }} , booktitle={{Portable Information Devices, 2007. PORTABLE07. IEEE International Conference on}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2007. May} } @incollection{b36, , title={{Energy efficient thermal aware routing algorithms for embedded biomedical sensor networks}} , author={{ ABag } and { MABassiouni }} , booktitle={{2006 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2006. October} } @incollection{b37, , title={{A review of routing protocols in wireless body area networks}} , author={{ SMovassaghi } and { MAbolhasan } and { JLipman }} , journal={{Journal of Networks}} 8 3 , year={2013} } @incollection{b38, , title={{Anybody: a self-organization protocol for body area networks}} , author={{ TWatteyne } and { IAugé-Blum } and { MDohler } and { DBarthel }} , booktitle={{Proceedings of the ICST 2nd international conference on Body area networks}} the ICST 2nd international conference on Body area networks , publisher={ICST} , year={2007. June} Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering } @incollection{b39, , title={{Energy-efficient communication protocol for wireless microsensor networks}} , author={{ WRHeinzelman } and { AChandrakasan } and { HBalakrishnan }} , booktitle={{Proceedings of the 33rd annual Hawaii international conference on}} the 33rd annual Hawaii international conference on , publisher={IEEE} , year={2000. January. 2000} 10 , note={System sciences} } @incollection{b40, , title={{On data gathering protocols for in-body biomedical sensor networks}} , author={{ MMoh } and { BJCulpepper } and { LDung } and { TSMoh } and { THamada } and { CFSu }} , booktitle={{GLOBECOM'05. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2005. December. 2005} 5 6 } @incollection{b41, , title={{Design and analysis of Hybrid Indirect Transmissions (HIT) for data gathering in wireless micro sensor networks}} , author={{ BJCulpepper } and { LDung } and { MMoh }} , journal={{ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review}} 8 1 , year={2004} } @incollection{b42, , title={{On data gathering protocols for in-body biomedical sensor networks}} , author={{ MMoh } and { BJCulpepper } and { LDung } and { TSMoh } and { THamada } and { CFSu }} , booktitle={{GLOBECOM'05. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2005. December. 2005} 5 6 } @incollection{b43, , title={{Energy efficient thermal and power aware (ETPA) routing in body area networks}} , author={{ SMovassaghi } and { MAbolhasan } and { JLipman }} , booktitle={{2012 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications-(PIMRC)}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2012. September} } @incollection{b44, , title={{Exploiting prediction to enable secure and reliable routing in wireless body area networks}} , author={{ XLiang } and { XLi } and { QShen } and { RLu } and { XLin } and { XShen } and { WZhuang }} , booktitle={{INFOCOM, 2012 Proceedings IEEE}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2012. March} } @incollection{b45, , title={{Probabilistic routing in on-body sensor networks with postural disconnections}} , author={{ MQuwaider } and { SBiswas }} , booktitle={{Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access}} the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access , publisher={ACM} , year={2009. October} } @incollection{b46, , title={{DTN routing in body sensor networks with dynamic postural partitioning}} , author={{ MQuwaider } and { SBiswas }} , journal={{Ad Hoc Networks}} 8 8 , year={2010} } @incollection{b47, , title={{The wireless autonomous spanning tree protocol for multihop wireless body area networks}} , author={{ BBraem } and { BLatre } and { IMoerman } and { CBlondia } and { PDemeester }} , booktitle={{2006 Third Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2006. July} } @incollection{b48, , title={{Improving reliability in multi-hop body sensor networks}} , author={{ BBraem } and { BLatré } and { CBlondia } and { IMoerman } and { PDemeester }} , booktitle={{SENSORCO-MM'08. Second International Conference on}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2008. August. 2008} , note={Sensor Technologies and Applications} } @incollection{b49, , title={{Energy-efficient multi-hop medical sensor networking}} , author={{ AGRuzzelli } and { RJurdak } and { GMO'hare } and { Van Der } and { PStok }} , booktitle={{Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE international workshop on Systems and networking support for healthcare and assisted living environments}} the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE international workshop on Systems and networking support for healthcare and assisted living environments , publisher={ACM} , year={2007. June} } @incollection{b50, , title={{Biocomm-A cross-layer medium access control (MAC) and routing protocol co-design for biomedical sensor networks}} , author={{ ABag } and { MABassiouni }} , journal={{International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems}} 24 1 , year={2009} } @incollection{b51, , title={{New QoS and geographical routing in wireless biomedical sensor networks}} , author={{ DDjenouri } and { IBalasingham }} , booktitle={{Sixth International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems}} , year={2009. September. 2009} } @incollection{b52, , title={{}} , journal={{IEEE}} } @incollection{b53, , title={{An energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks}} , author={{ WYe } and { JHeidemann } and { DEstrin }} , booktitle={{INFOCOM 2002. Twenty-First Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2002} 3 } @incollection{b54, , title={{An adaptive energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks}} , author={{ TVan Dam } and { KLangendoen }} , booktitle={{Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems}} the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems , publisher={ACM} , year={2003. November} } @incollection{b55, , title={{Versatile low power media access for wireless sensor networks}} , author={{ JPolastre } and { JHill } and { DCuller }} , booktitle={{Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems}} the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems , publisher={ACM} , year={2004. November} } @book{b56, , title={{PMAC: Energy efficient medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks}} , author={{ NPKhan } and { CBoncelet }} , year={2006. October. 2006-2006} } @incollection{b57, , title={{}} , journal={{IEEE Military Communications conference}} , publisher={IEEE} } @incollection{b58, , title={{An adaptive energy-efficient and lowlatency MAC for data gathering in wireless sensor networks}} , author={{ GLu } and { BKrishnamachari } and { CSRaghavendra }} , booktitle={{Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2004. April. 2004} 224 , note={Proceedings. 18th International} } @incollection{b59, , title={{Commu-nications for Network-Centric Operations: Creating the Information Force}} , author={{ GPei } and { CChien }} , booktitle={{Military Communications Conference}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2001. 2001. MILCOM 2001} 1 , note={Low power TDMA in large wireless sensor networks} } @incollection{b60, , title={{An application-specific protocol architecture for wireless microsensor networks}} , author={{ WBHeinzelman } and { APChandrakasan } and { HBalakrishnan }} , journal={{IEEE Transactions on wireless communications}} 1 4 , year={2002} } @incollection{b61, , title={{Energy-efficient, application-aware medium access for sensor networks}} , author={{ VRajendran } and { JJGarcia-Luna-Aveces } and { KObraczka }} , booktitle={{IEEE International Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems Conference}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2005. November. 2005} 8 } @incollection{b62, , title={{HEED: a hybrid, energy-efficient, distributed clustering approach for ad hoc sensor networks}} , author={{ OYounis } and { SFahmy }} , journal={{IEEE Transactions on mobile computing}} 3 4 , year={2004} } @incollection{b63, , title={{Heartbeat driven MAC for body sensor networks}} , author={{ HMLi } and { JDTan }} , booktitle={{Proc of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE international workshop on systems and networking support for healthcare and assisted living environments}} of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE international workshop on systems and networking support for healthcare and assisted living environmentsSan Juan, Puerto Rico , year={Jun. 2007} } @incollection{b64, , title={{Reservation-based dynamic TDMA protocol for medical body area networks}} , author={{ LIChangle } and { LIHuan-Bang } and { RKohno }} , journal={{IEICE transactions on communications}} 92 2 , year={2009} } @incollection{b65, , title={{Highly reliable energy-saving MAC for wireless body sensor networks in healthcare systems}} , author={{ BOtal } and { LAlonso } and { CVerikoukis }} , journal={{IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications}} 27 4 , year={2009} } @incollection{b66, , title={{Battery-dynamics driven TDMA MAC protocols for wireless body-area monitoring networks in healthcare applications}} , author={{ HSu } and { XZhang }} , journal={{IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications}} 27 4 , year={2009} } @incollection{b67, , title={{Scalable and robust medium access control protocol in wireless body area networks}} , author={{ CLi } and { LWang } and { JLi } and { BZhen } and { HBLi } and { RKohno }} , booktitle={{PIMRC}} , year={2009. September} } @incollection{b68, , title={{Hybrid unified-slot access protocol for wireless body area networks}} , author={{ CLi } and { JLi } and { BZhen } and { HBLi } and { RKohno }} , journal={{International Journal of Wireless Information Networks}} 17 3-4 , year={2010} } @incollection{b69, , title={{Energy efficient medium access protocol for wireless medical body area sensor networks}} , author={{ OOmeni } and { AC WWong } and { AJBurdett } and { CToumazou }} , journal={{IEEE Transactions on biomedical circuits and systems}} 2 4 , year={2008} } @incollection{b70, , title={{An adaptive energy efficient MAC protocol for the medical body area network}} , author={{ NFTimmons } and { WGScanlon }} , booktitle={{Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Technology}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2009. May. 2009} , note={Wireless VITAE 2009. 1st International Conference on} } @incollection{b71, , title={{Energy-efficient low duty cycle MAC protocol for wireless body area networks}} , author={{ SJMarinkovic } and { EMPopovici } and { CSpagnol } and { SFaul } and { WPMarnane }} , journal={{IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine}} 13 6 , year={2009} } @incollection{b72, , title={{Ultra-low duty cycle MAC with scheduled channel polling}} , author={{ WYe } and { FSilva } and { JHeidemann }} , booktitle={{Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems}} the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems , publisher={ACM} , year={2006. October} } @incollection{b73, , title={{BodyMAC: Energy efficient TDMA-based MAC protocol for wireless body area networks}} , author={{ GFang } and { EDutkiewicz }} , booktitle={{ISCIT 2009. 9th International Symposium on}} , publisher={IEEE} , year={2009. September. 2009} , note={Communications and Information Technology} }