Quality of Service and Routing Performance Evaluation for IEEE 802.15.6 Body Sensor Networks Using an Accurate Physical Layer

Recent advances in ultra-low power wireless sensors have fostered research in the field of bodycentric wireless networks, also referred to as body area networks (BANs) [4-7]. In these networks, a set of nodes (called sensors) is deployed on the human body. They aim at monitoring and reporting several physiological values, such as blood pressure, breath rate, skin temperature, or heart beating rate.