Monitoring security and quality of service is essential, due to the rapid growth of the number of nodes in wireless networks. In healthcare/industrial environments, especially in wireless body area networks (WBANs), this is even more important. Because the delays and errors can directly affect patients'/scientists' health. To increase the Monitoring Quality of Services (MQoS) in WBANs, a secure medium access control (MAC) protocol needs to be developed to provide optimal services. This article provides a comprehensive review of MAC protocols in WBANs with a technical security analysis approach. Time-based, contention-based, and hybrid protocols are compared in this article, regarding MQoS and their security vulnerabilities. We have considered delay, packet loss, and energy consumption as performance evaluation criteria in WBANs, which may be degraded under a cyberattack. This work shows that there is a research gap in the literature, which is the failure of covering security and privacy issues in the MAC layer protocols.

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迈向以 MAC 层协议为重点的安全工业无线体域网：分析回顾


由于无线网络中节点数量的快速增长，监控安全性和服务质量至关重要。在医疗保健/工业环境中，尤其是在无线体域网 (WBAN) 中，这一点更为重要。因为延误和错误会直接影响患者/科学家的健康。为了提高 WBAN 中的服务监控质量 (MQoS)，需要开发安全媒体访问控制 (MAC) 协议来提供最佳服务。本文通过技术安全分析方法对 WBAN 中的 MAC 协议进行了全面回顾。本文对基于时间、基于竞争和混合协议的 MQoS 及其安全漏洞进行了比较。我们将延迟、丢包和能耗作为 WBAN 的性能评估标准，这些标准在网络攻击下可能会降低。这项工作表明文献中存在研究空白，即未能涵盖 MAC 层协议中的安全和隐私问题。