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The prime consideration in WBAN is how to maximize the network lifetime with  battery-powered sensor nodes in energy constraint. Novel solutions in Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols are imperative to satisfy the particular BAN scenario and the need of excellent energy efficiency in healthcare applications. In this paper, we propose a hybrid Lifetime Extended Directional Approach (LEDA) MAC protocol based on  IEEE 802.15.6 to reduce energy consumption and prolong network lifetime. The LEDA MAC protocol takes full advantages of directional superiority in energy saving that employs multi-beam directional mode in Carrier Sense Multiple Access\/Collision Avoidance (CSMA\/CA) and single-beam directional mode in Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) for alternative in data reservation and transmission according to the traffic varieties. Moreover, the impacts of some inherent problems of directional antennas such as deafness and hidden terminal problem can be decreased owing to that all nodes generate individual beam according to user priorities designated. Furthermore, LEDA MAC employs a Dynamic Polled Allocation Period (DPAP) for burst data transmissions to increase the network reliability and adaptability. Extensive analysis and simulation results show that the proposed LEDA MAC protocol achieves extended network lifetime with improved performance compared with IEEE 802.15.6.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s151128005","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,5]],"date-time":"2015-11-05T10:56:04Z","timestamp":1446720964000},"page":"28005-28030","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["A Hybrid Lifetime Extended Directional Approach for WBANs"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Changle","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaoming","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Li","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yueyang","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"84","DOI":"10.1109\/MCOM.2009.5350373","article-title":"Enabling technologies for wireless body area networks: A survey and outlook","volume":"47","author":"Cao","year":"2009","journal-title":"IEEE Commun. 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