A Symmetric TDMA Mechanism to Optimize the Performance of the Body Sensor Network for Sports Application

Abstract

The body sensor network plays a vital role in the analysis of the gait analysis of human, sensing the various events happening in the human body. The communication that takes place between the sensed device and the processing system is very important in which the nodes worn on the human body communicate with the sink node placed in the center of the human body. A wireless communication mechanism TDMA was used and the results gave around 60 percent reliability among the nodes. The dynamic TDMA gave a reliability of 90 percent and retransmission mechanism of 95 percent. Our research work focused on to improve the reliability between the nodes and to develop an application for the users to retrieve the data from the sink node. A Symmetric TDMA algorithm was used in which the reliability was increased up to 2 percent resulted in 97 percent. Also, a Bayesian model was developed to identify the probability of nodes initiating to transmit at the same time. The model proved that the chances of nodes transmitting at the same time are 8 percent when comparing to all other techniques. The reliability of the network was also increased. Further, the work will be developed to bring the security concepts into the transmission of data packets, so that the loss can be minimized.