An Overview of IEEE 802.15.6 Standard
Kyung Sup Kwak, Sana Ullah, and Niamat Ullah

TL;DR
This paper provides an overview of the IEEE 802.15.6 standard, which is designed to enable low-power wireless communication for body area networks supporting medical and non-medical applications.
Contribution
It explains the key features, PHY and MAC layer specifications, and security aspects of the IEEE 802.15.6 standard for WBANs.
Findings
Defines a MAC layer supporting multiple PHY layers
Details bandwidth efficiency of the standard
Discusses security paradigms for WBANs
Abstract
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) has emerged as a key technology to provide real-time health monitoring of a patient and diagnose many life threatening diseases. WBAN operates in close vicinity to, on, or inside a human body and supports a variety of medical and non-medical applications. IEEE 802 has established a Task Group called IEEE 802.15.6 for the standardization of WBAN. The purpose of the group is to establish a communication standard optimized for low-power in-body/on-body nodes to serve a variety of medical and non-medical applications. This paper explains the most important features of the new IEEE 802.15.6 standard. The standard defines a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer supporting several Physical (PHY) layers. We briefly overview the PHY and MAC layers specifications together with the bandwidth efficiency of IEEE 802.15.6 standard. We also discuss the security paradigm…
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