TY  - JOUR
T1  - Transmission Latency-Aware MAC Protocol Design for Intra-Body Communications
AU  - Kim, Seungmin 
AU  - Park, JongSung 
AU  - Ko, JeongGil 
JO  - KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/1/30
DO  - 10.3745/KTCCS.2019.8.8.201
KW  - Wireless Body Area Networks
KW  - Intra-Body Communications
KW  - MAC Layer Protocol
AB  - Intra-Body Communication (IBC) is a communication method using the human body as a communication medium. The fact that our human body consists of water and electrolyte allow such communication method could work and have strength  in low-power. However, because the IBC directly affects to human body by using it as a medium, there was a lack of research in communication  protocols of each communication layer. In this paper, we suggests MAC parameters which affects the performance of communication in human body channel, and propose new MAC protocol. Our results shows that our MAC is suitable for supporting high data rate applications with comparable radio duty cycle performance.