Energy Efficiency and Reliability Considerations in Wireless Body Area Networks: A Survey.
Comput Math Methods Med, 2022 In this paper, we have reviewed and presented a critical overview of “energy-efficient and reliable routing solutions” in the field of wireless body area networks (WBANs).
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Wearable Wireless Body Area Networks for Medical Applications.
Comput Math Methods Med, 2021 In recent times, there has been a significant growth in networks known as the wireless body area networks (WBANs). A WBAN connects distributed nodes throughout the human body, which can be placed on the skin, under the skin, or on clothing and can use ...
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Lightweight Fine-Grained Access Control for Wireless Body Area Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a highly promising technology enabling health providers to remotely monitor vital parameters of patients via tiny wearable and implantable sensors.
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Technologies and Challenges for Cognitive Radio Enabled Medical Wireless Body Area Networks
IEEE Access, 2018 We present a review of spectrum sharing wireless body area networks. We investigate how cognitive radio (CR) and dynamic spectrum access are used for body area networks to save spectral resources.
Shabnam Sodagari +2 more
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Value-Based Caching in Information-Centric Wireless Body Area Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2017 We propose a resilient cache replacement approach based on a Value of sensed Information (VoI) policy. To resolve and fetch content when the origin is not available due to isolated in-network nodes (fragmentation) and harsh operational conditions, we ...
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Nash Bargaining-Based Hybrid MAC Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks [PDF]
SensorsWireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is an emerging medical health monitoring technology. However, WBANs encounter critical challenges in balancing reliability, energy efficiency, and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for life-critical medical data. The
Haoru Su, Jiale Yang, Rong Li, Jian He
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Wireless sensor networks in biomedical: Body area networks [PDF]
International Workshop on Systems, Signal Processing and their Applications, WOSSPA, 2011 The rapid growth in biomedical sensors, low-power circuits and wireless communications has enabled a new generation of wireless sensor networks: the body area networks. These networks are composed of tiny, cheap and low-power biomedical nodes, mainly dedicated for healthcare monitoring applications.
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Adaptive Sampling-Based Information Collection for Wireless Body Area Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2016 To collect important health information, WBAN applications typically sense data at a high frequency. However, limited by the quality of wireless link, the uploading of sensed data has an upper frequency.
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A Survey on Mobility Support in Wireless Body Area Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2017 Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have attracted research interests from the community, as more promising healthcare applications have a tendency to employ them as underlying network technology.
Beom-Su Kim, Kyong Hoon Kim, Ki-Il Kim
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A New Energy-Efficient Topology for Wireless Body Area Networks
Journal of Medical Signals and Sensors, 2017 Wireless body area networks consist of several devices placed on the human body, sensing vital signs and providing remote recognition of health disorders. Low power consumption is crucial in these networks.
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