Inter-BAN Interference Mitigation: A Correlated Equilibrium Perspective

• Published in: Studies in health technology and informatics Vol. 200; p. 111
• Main Authors: Marbukh, Vladimir, Sayrafian, Kamran, Barbi, Martina, Alasti, Mehdi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands 2014
• Subjects: Computer Communication Networks; Computer Simulation; Equipment Failure Analysis; Humans; Telemetry; Wireless Technology
• ISSN: 0926-9630
• DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-393-3-111

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.