Finite source make a limitation on the energy spent by sensor nodes in sensing, processing, storing and delivering the data [1; 2; 3; 4]. The end-to-end (e2e) delay, the duty cycle and the average power transmission are the key factors to determine the overall performance of a WBAN. The most suitable layers to address the aforementioned factors are data link layer, such as medium access control (MAC) protocol and physical layer (such as virtual diversity technique) [5; 6; 7]. MAC protocol is controlling and organizing the sensor nodes access to the wireless shared medium. MAC protocol is an essential protocol which consider the basis for getting Quality of Service (QoS), high data rate and higher power saving in any wireless networks. In addition, the MAC protocol is preventing collisions and concurrent sending while conserving data rate, reduce e2e delay, and enhanced the reliability [8; 9; 10; 11]. The diversity technique is the method to combat the effect of the of the wireless channel fading, diversity can be achieved through either embedded the sensor node with multiple antennas or through using the cooperative communication (CC) [12; 13]. Various type of the CCs is considered in WBAN to improve their performance in the term of power transmission, reliability, and the e2e delay. Where, in the traditional cooperative communication (TCC), a source sends data to a one of the on body intermediate node, then intermediate node(s) (relay(s)) retransmit what was sent by the source to the destination [14]. However, such cooperative communication utilized extra sub-channels/time slots to transmit single data from the source to the destination, which increases the delay, and reduce the bandwidth efficiency of the wireless communication [15; 16]. Therefore, to solve the aforementioned problem of the TCC, an incremental cooperative communication (ICC) is utilized. In such, the intermediate node does not participate in cooperation until the destination does not receive what was sent by the source correctly [17]. The TCC has been widely considered in the literature for WBAN systems [18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26], however, in this paper, only the ICC is surveyed. [PERSON] et al. [27] investigated the energy efficiency (EE) of incremental cooperative communication (ICC) in WBANs. They also provided an analytical model for the EE of DTM and CCs and considered the effect of packet error rate (PER) on both systems. The optimisation of packet size was also taken into account. [PERSON] et al. [28] and [PERSON] et al. [29] optimised the packet size to maximise the EE in IEEE 802.15.6, considering ultra-wideband, where packet size optimisation was done for both DTM and ICC systems. [PERSON] et al. [30] reduced the energy consumption, and prolonged the network lifetime, of in-body sensor nodes by using an ICC protocol. They maintained a flexible QoS and suggested a new in-to-out body path loss (PL) model. [PERSON] et al. [31] proposed a novel cooperative energy harvesting (CEH)-MAC model, that adapted its operation to the energy harvesting (EH) conditions. Their proposed protocol exploits the EH information in order to set an idle time that allows the relay nodes to charge their batteries and complete the cooperation phase successfully. They have improved EE, e2e delay, and network throughput. [PERSON] et al. [32] investigated and analysed ICC for WBANs with different numbers of relays where EE and PER were inspected for various scenarios. Also, a new ICC with three-stage relaying of data is proposed (the so-called 'Enhanced Incremental Cooperative Critical data transmission in Emergencies for Static WBANs' (EInCo-CESatat)) where the proposed protocol enhances the EE and PER compared to existing work. [PERSON] et al. [33] proposed a Linear Acceleration based Transmission Power Decision Control (LA-TPDC) algorithm where energy consumption, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), bit error rate (BER), and PER were evaluated for all participating nodes. [PERSON] et al.