A Priority-Based MAC Protocol for the Terahertz In-Vivo Nano-Networks in the Presence of Noise

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10.2991/cimns-18.2018.14How to use a DOI?

Keywords

priority; MAC; in-vivo nano-networks; noise model; terahertz channel

Abstract

Advances in nanotechnology and sensor networks recent years provide the opportunity for developing Wireless NanoSensor Networks (WNSNs) in the terahertz (THz) band(0.1-10THz). It’s a new challenge for the THz nano-networks to satisfy biomedical applications with a medium access control (MAC) protocol to support prioritized services for various traffics in human body. In addressing this challenge, we proposed a priority-based MAC (PB-MAC) protocol for electromagnetic (EM) communication over THz bands for in-vivo nano-networks, which takes the channel noise within two human tissues into account. The PB-MAC protocol ensures medical data with different kinds of priorities sorted into priority order by utilizing a new priority-queue(PQ) algorithm. Network Simulator 3 (NS3) implemented simulations, and the results demonstrate that the PB-MAC protocol guarantee priority classified data received by priority, and is efficient in terms of the average transmission delay and network throughput compared with the transparent transmission MAC protocol.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiali Kan
AU  - Juan Xu
AU  - Yakun Zhao
AU  - Jiaolong Jiang
AU  - Yan Zhang
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - A Priority-Based MAC Protocol for the Terahertz In-Vivo Nano-Networks in the Presence of Noise
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 3rd International Conference on Communications, Information Management and Network Security (CIMNS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 63
EP  - 67
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/cimns-18.2018.14
DO  - 10.2991/cimns-18.2018.14
ID  - Kan2018/11
ER  -