Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)

Salayma, Marwa; Al‐Dubai, Ahmed; Romdhani, Imed; Nasser, Youssef

doi:10.1145/3041956

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“…Wireless body area networks (WBANs) help in monitoring health activities regardless of patient location and only teleconsultation is needed, thus reducing the visiting hours of doctors. WBANs monitor humans' e-health as a key element [3], but WBAN has many challenges with respect to data, network, interoperability, security, and scalability [4]. Wearable sensors help in collecting information about the physiological parameters of the patient, which are to the doctor at the medical center to analyze the information [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)-Based Telemedicine for Emergency Care

Latha

Pandu

2020

Sensors

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This paper is a collection of telemedicine techniques used by wireless body area networks (WBANs) for emergency conditions. Furthermore, Bayes’ theorem is proposed for predicting emergency conditions. With prior knowledge, the posterior probability can be found along with the observed evidence. The probability of sending emergency messages can be determined using Bayes’ theorem with the likelihood evidence. It can be viewed as medical decision-making, since diagnosis conditions such as emergency monitoring, delay-sensitive monitoring, and general monitoring are analyzed with its network characteristics, including data rate, cost, packet loss rate, latency, and jitter. This paper explains the network model with 16 variables, with one describing immediate consultation, as well as another three describing emergency monitoring, delay-sensitive monitoring, and general monitoring. The remaining 12 variables are observations related to latency, cost, packet loss rate, data rate, and jitter.

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Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)-Based Telemedicine for Emergency Care

Latha

Pandu

2020

Sensors

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“…A number of these issues has been considered in the literature, and synthesized by several surveys in order to discuss and compare them [19,[31][32][33][34]. Namely, a recent survey [31] summarizes the WBAN routing protocols, while classifying them into posture-based, energy-efficient, QoS-based, mobility-based, etc., and highlighting the network design considerations provided by each.…”

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“…Some other studies focused on the body-to-body channel characterization such as [15,16,36]. Even fewer works tackled the inter-WBAN coexistence issue [32,[37][38][39], some of which are discussed in detail in this survey hereafter.…”

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Moving Towards Body-to-Body Sensor Networks for Ubiquitous Applications: A Survey

Meharouech

Elias

Mehaoua

2019

JSAN

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Thanks to their arising abilities to influence the human lifestyle, along with reducing the healthcare systems’ cost, wireless body area networks (WBANs) still form a strongly growing research field. Recent advances focus on the opportunities of coexistence and communication between a group of WBANs, that will forward the sensing data, using persons as network relays, until reaching a remote analysis server or cloud servers via the Internet, forming thus a body-to-body network (BBN). Such new-style networks support a range of innovative and promising applications, including ubiquitous healthcare (U-health), interactive games, and military, to cite a few. In this paper, we first present the evolution of the single WBAN concept to the cooperative network of multiple WBANs, giving rise to the BBN concept. A synopsis of the WBAN and BBN respective standards and applications is given, and the emerging BBN challenges are highlighted. Then, we present and discuss the existing WBAN proposals, especially the candidate WBAN protocols that could be adapted and used in BBNs, focusing on four intrinsically related axes of great importance for BBN design: energy efficiency, mobility prediction, quality of service (QoS) and security. Further BBN open issues are also investigated, namely, the wireless propagation between humans carrying wearable devices, the interference, storage and privacy issues as well as the heterogeneity of BBN devices and traffic.

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“…An overview of security in BANs, where the authors focused on key agreement schemes and methods used to evaluate security and performance have been introduced [10]. Similarly, there is a review on reliability and fault tolerance in WBAN solutions [11]. There is also a very recent paper that reviews the state-of-the-art of network architecture topologies and applications in Internet of Things (IoT)-based healthcare solutions [12].…”

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Body Area Networks in Healthcare: A Brief State of the Art

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A body area network (BAN) comprises a set of devices that sense their surroundings, activate and communicate with each other when an event is detected in its environment. Although BAN technology was developed more than 20 years ago, in recent years, its popularity has greatly increased. The reason is the availability of smaller and more powerful devices, more efficient communication protocols and improved duration of portable batteries. BANs are applied in many fields, healthcare being one of the most important through gathering information about patients and their surroundings. A continuous stream of information may help physicians with making well-informed decisions about a patient's treatment. Based on recent literature, the authors review BAN architectures, network topologies, energy sources, sensor types, applications, as well as their main challenges. In addition, the paper focuses on the principal requirements of safety, security, and sustainability. In addition, future research and improvements are discussed.

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Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)

Cited by 156 publications

References 55 publications

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)-Based Telemedicine for Emergency Care

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)-Based Telemedicine for Emergency Care

Moving Towards Body-to-Body Sensor Networks for Ubiquitous Applications: A Survey

Body Area Networks in Healthcare: A Brief State of the Art

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