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Wireless Body Area Networks

2011
The book provides a comprehensive overview for the latest WBAN systems, technologies, and applications. The chapters of the book have been written by various specialists who are experts in their areas of research and practice. The book starts with the basic techniques involved in designing and building WBAN systems.
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Wireless Body Area Networks in mHealth

2015
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are emerging as important networks, applicable in various fields. In this chapter a comprehensive survey of WBANs that are designed for applications in healthcare is presented. The survey consists of stand-alone sections focusing on important aspects of WBANs.
Garth V. Crosby, Craig A. Chin, Tirthankar Ghosh, Renita Murimi   +3 more
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Cloud-assisted Wireless Body Area Networks

Information Sciences, 2014
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have emerged as a promising technology for medical and non-medical applications. WBANs consist of a number of miniaturized, portable, and autonomous sensor nodes that are used for long-term health monitoring of patients.
Ullah, Sana, Vasilakos, Athanasios, Chao, Han-Chieh, Suzuki, Junichi   +3 more
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Wireless Sensor Networks in Biomedical: Wireless Body Area Networks

2016
A wireless sensor networks can be used in several applications to monitor certain parameters like smart homes, agriculture field monitoring and healt care monitoring. In this work, we propose a routing protocol for wireless body area network, to transfer data with minimum energy consumption and longer network life time, we use a multi-hop topology and ...
Bahae Abidi, Abdelillah Jilbab, Mohamed E. L. Haziti   +2 more
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Wireless body area network platforms evaluation

2013 9th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2013
This paper aims to propose an evaluation and a comparison of health-monitoring platforms based on wireless body area network (WBAN). We focused on the main concept behind these platforms individually as well as we classified these platforms based on the provided solutions and their main features. Important considerations in designing WBAN platforms are
Bandar Alghamdi, Hacene Fouchal
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Ultrawideband wireless body-area sensor networks

Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics, 2013
The operation principles of wireless body-area networks (WBANs) and requirements to their infrastructure are described. The new IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN standard, in which an ultrawideband (UWB) signal is used as an information carrier, is discussed. The general properties of the given standard and its distinctions from the existing wireless personal ...
A. S. Dmitriev, V. A. Lasarev, M. I. Gerasimov, A. I. Ryzhov   +3 more
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Sensors for wireless body area networks

2017
The inevitable progress of health monitoring technologies leads to continuous improvement of the monitoring sensors. They become smaller and compact, with lower power consumption and higher accuracy. These devices are then integrated into wireless body area networks (WBANs) which promise real-time healthcare monitoring during daily activities. WBANs or
Ivelina Nikolaeva Ruskova, Elitsa Emilova Gieva   +1 more
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Guest editorial: Wireless body-area networks

China Communications, 2015
The last decade has witnessed the convergence of three giant worlds: electronics, computer science and telecommunications. The next decade should follow this convergence in most of our activities with the generalization of sensor networks. In particular with the progress in medicine, people live longer and the aging of population will push the ...
Wen Chen, Benoit Geller, Fengye Hu, Ting Jiang, Qixin Wang   +4 more
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Ultra Wideband Wireless Body Area Networks

2014
This book explores the design of ultra wideband (UWB) technology for wireless body-area networks (WBAN). The authors describe a novel implementation of WBAN sensor nodes that use UWB for data transmission and narrow band for data reception, enabling low power sensor nodes, with high data rate capability.
Thotahewa, K. M. S., Redouté, Jean-Michel, Yuce, M. R.   +2 more
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Wireless Body Area Networks – A Review

2022
A network is basically formed when two or more computers connect with each other in order to perform certain tasks, it could be data transfer, file exchange etc. The connection could be either a wired or a wireless connection. Before the advent of wireless communication and technology, the devices in a network were physically connected with wires ...
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