Toward Dependable Internet of Medical Things: IEEE 802.15.6 Ultra-Wideband Physical Layer Utilizing Superorthogonal Convolutional Code [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are attracting attention as a very important technology for realizing an Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). IEEE 802.15.6 is well known as one of the international standards for WBANs for the IoMT.
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Performance Evaluation of RTS/CTS Scheme in Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.6 MAC Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 The IEEE 802.15.6 standard has the potential to provide cost-effective and unobtrusive medical services to individuals with chronic health conditions. It is a low-power standard developed for wireless body area networks and enables wireless communication
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New Contact Sensorization Smart System for IoT e-Health Applications Based on IBC IEEE 802.15.6 Communications [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 This paper proposes and demonstrates the capabilities of a new sensorization system that monitors skin contact between two persons. Based on the intrabody communication standard (802.15.6), the new system allows for interbody communication, through the ...
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Performance Evaluation of a Quality of Service Control Scheme in Multi-Hop WBAN Based on IEEE 802.15.6 [PDF]
Sensors, 2018 The performance of a quality of service (QoS) control scheme in a multi-hop wireless body area network (WBAN) based on the IEEE Std. 802.15.6 is evaluated. In medical Internet of Things systems, WBANs are an important technology.
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Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks: Survey of MAC and Routing Protocols for Patient Monitoring under IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.15.6 [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 Wireless body area sensor networks (WBASNs) have received growing attention from industry and academia due to their exceptional potential for patient monitoring systems that are equipped with low-power wearable and implantable biomedical sensors under ...
Muhammad Sajjad Akbar +3 more
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Improving the Security of the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard for Medical BANs
IEEE Access, 2022 A Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) is an ensemble of collaborating, potentially heterogeneous, medical devices located inside, on the surface of or around the human body with the objective of tackling one or multiple medical conditions of the MBAN host ...
Muhammad Ali Siddiqi +4 more
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BNS: A Framework for Wireless Body Area Network Realistic Simulations [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Simulation is a useful and common technique to evaluate the performance of networks when the implementation of a real scenario is not available. Specifically for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN), it is crucial to perform evaluations in environments as ...
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On-Body and Off-Body Communications: A Comparative Study Between Hardware and Simulations [PDF]
SensorsThe IEEE 802.15.6 standard defines wireless body area networks (WBANs) for communication in, on, and around the human body. However, commercially available hardware platforms that support direct experimental validation of IEEE 802.15.6-oriented WBAN ...
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A Review of IEEE 802.15.6 MAC, PHY, and Security Specifications
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2013 IEEE 802.15.6 is the first international Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) standard that supports communications in the vicinity of or inside a human body to serve a variety of medical and nonmedical applications.
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Critical Data-Based Incremental Cooperative Communication for Wireless Body Area Network [PDF]
Sensors, 2018 Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are single-hop network systems, where sensors gather the body’s vital signs and send them directly to master nodes (MNs). The sensors are distributed in or on the body.
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