Inter-BAN Interference Mitigation: A Correlated Equilibrium Perspective

Published

June 13, 2014

Author(s)

Vladimir Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti

Abstract

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.

Volume

200

Conference Dates

June 11-13, 2014

Conference Location

Vienna, AT

Conference Title

11th International Conference on Wearable
Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

Body area network, interference mitigation, regret matching scheduling

Citation

Marbukh, V. , Sayrafian, K. , Barbi, M. and Alasti, M. (2014), Inter-BAN Interference Mitigation: A Correlated Equilibrium Perspective, 11th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health, Vienna, AT, [online], https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-393-3-111 (Accessed October 10, 2025)