TY - JOUR
T1 - A survey
T2 - energy exhausting attacks in MAC protocols in WBANs
AU - Jo, Minho
AU - Han, Longzhe
AU - Tan, Nguyen Duy
AU - In, Hoh Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper was supported in part by a National Research Foundation of Korea grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2011-0009454), and by Seoul R&BD Program (WR080951), and by Next-Generation Information Computing Development Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2012M3C4A7033345).
Funding Information:
This research was supported by a Korea University grant.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - Because the sensors of wireless body area networks (WBANs) have limited battery power, many studies have focused on energy efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols to extend the lifetime of the sensors. In addition, WBANs face energy-exhausting attacks, which force the sensors to consume battery power partially or thoroughly. These attacks occur mainly in the MAC layer and threaten severely the energy efficiency of MAC protocols in WBANs. Because the attacks are made abruptly and unexpectedly, the lives of human beings and the quality of health care services can be threatened. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the major types of energy exhausting attacks in MAC protocols in WBANs, and show how easily the attacks can cause energy exhaustion in different MAC protocols. This survey provides clues for future research into energy efficient MAC protocols in WBANs.
AB - Because the sensors of wireless body area networks (WBANs) have limited battery power, many studies have focused on energy efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols to extend the lifetime of the sensors. In addition, WBANs face energy-exhausting attacks, which force the sensors to consume battery power partially or thoroughly. These attacks occur mainly in the MAC layer and threaten severely the energy efficiency of MAC protocols in WBANs. Because the attacks are made abruptly and unexpectedly, the lives of human beings and the quality of health care services can be threatened. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the major types of energy exhausting attacks in MAC protocols in WBANs, and show how easily the attacks can cause energy exhaustion in different MAC protocols. This survey provides clues for future research into energy efficient MAC protocols in WBANs.
KW - Energy efficient medium Access control protocol
KW - Energy exhausting attacks
KW - Wireless body area networks
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U2 - 10.1007/s11235-014-9897-0
DO - 10.1007/s11235-014-9897-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84922701760
VL - 58
SP - 153
EP - 164
JO - Telecommunication Systems
JF - Telecommunication Systems
SN - 1018-4864
IS - 2
ER -
