A cooperative software-hardware approach for wireless body area network implementation

This paper proposes a cooperative softwarehardware framework to implement the complexity of application development for wireless body area networks (WBAN). The framework consists of a software WBAN simulator, WBAN hardware platform and code generator for sensor nodes. The proposed framework is convenient for design and verification of WBAN communication protocols and applications efficiently. In this paper, we discuss the cooperative software-hardware platform architecture, which packages the detailed hardware design. So the hardware of the sensor nodes is transparent to users. The paper also presents an application example with an adaptive MAC protocol to illustrate how to implement the proposed cooperative framework.