A New MAC Protocol for emergency handling in wireless body area networks

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a special purpose sensor application network which can be applied for applications relating to the health care. WBAN should support immediate and reliable data transmission for medical service during an emergency situation. Hence this paper proposes a new MAC superframe structure which can handle emergency data as well as a regular periodic data at the time of emergency. Simulation result shows low latency and increased throughput of the proposed superframe.