Optimal Dynamic Resource Allocation for Multi-Point Communication in WBAN

Abstract

Considering the characteristics of lower power resources in multi-point wireless body area networks (WBANs), the wireless energy and information transmission in full duplex (FD) mode is considered. We propose a transmission protocol based on time division multiple access, which includes two phases. In the inactive phase, the signal access point (AP) broadcasts Radio Frequency (RF) energy to the sensors. When the energy collected by all sensors reaches their respective energy thresholds, the active phase will start. In the active phase, the sensors send back the collected physiological information parameters to the AP, while sensors still collecting the energy transmitted from the AP to achieve the purpose of energy accumulating. Our goal is to obtain the optimal time allocation ratio through the joint objective linear programming method to obtain the maximum average sum-throughput. The simulation results compared with the AP with FD and the sensors with half duplex (HD) show that our proposed optimization method can improve system throughput obviously.

Keywords

• Wireless body area network (WBAN)
• energy harvest
• energy and information transfer
• full duplex (FD)
• half duplex (HD)
• linear programming method