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Abstract
This project aimed to create a plug-and-play protocol for Body Area Networks (BANs). This
protocol enables communication between a diverse number of devices and a base station, regardless of
equipment manufacturer. Previous BANs rely on either proprietary software, or protocols that are
specialized to the physical device. This protocol takes a more universal approach, allowing any arbitrary
device to participate in a BAN without introducing any significant overhead or running cost to the
operation of that BAN. Unlike previous approaches, any existing motes and the base station will not have
to be updated. Only new devices being added to the BAN will have to implement the protocol before
connecting. Our protocol introduces overhead that reduced the performance and lifetime of the motes
used in our BAN.
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