Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) Design Techniques and Performance Evaluation

Khan, Jamil Y.; Yuce, Mehmet Rasit; Bulger, Garrick; Harding, Benjamin F.

doi:10.1007/s10916-010-9605-x

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“…The low data storage, low processing power and high energy consumption are the challenging problems of WSN's sensor and these sensors are used in WBAN to monitor the sensitive organs of humans [75]. The manufacturers and designers are suggested to enhance the performance of sensors in terms to minimize the energy consumption, provide high data storage and high processing power.…”

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confidence: 99%

Medium Access Control (MAC) for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN): Superframe structure, multiple access technique, taxonomy, and challenges

Ullah

Abdullah

Kaiwartya

et al. 2017

Hum. Cent. Comput. Inf. Sci.

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Health monitoring using biomedical sensors has witnessed significant attention in recent past due to the evolution of a new research area in sensor network known as Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). In WBANs, a number of implantable, wearable, and off-body biomedical sensors are utilized to monitor various vital signs of patient’s body for early detection, and medication of grave diseases. In literature, a number of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for WBANs have been suggested for addressing the unique challenges related to reliability, delay, collision and energy in the new research area. The design of MAC protocols is based on multiple access techniques. Understanding the basis of MAC protocol designs for identifying their design objectives in broader perspective, is a quite challenging task. In this context, this paper qualitatively reviews MAC protocols for WBANs. Firstly, 802.15.4 and 802.15.6 based MAC Superframe structures are investigated focusing on design objectives. Secondly, different multiple access techniques such as TDMA, CSMA/CA, Slotted Aloha and Hybrid are explored in terms of design goals. Thirdly, a two-layered taxonomy is presented for MAC protocols. First layer classification is based on multiple access techniques, whereas second layer classification is based on design objectives and characteristics of MAC protocols. Critical and qualitative analysis is carried out for each considered MAC protocol. Comparative study of different MAC protocols is also performed. Finally, some open research challenges in the area are identified with initial research directions.

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confidence: 99%

Medium Access Control (MAC) for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN): Superframe structure, multiple access technique, taxonomy, and challenges

Ullah

Abdullah

Kaiwartya

et al. 2017

Hum. Cent. Comput. Inf. Sci.

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“…Small coverage area causes to body temperature and change location, and movement of nodes. So, the implementation of the network is vital aspect [33]. Moreover, exist major challenges between BANs and applications.…”

Section: Wbans Design Challenges and Open Issuementioning

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A Review of State-of-the-Art on Wireless Body Area Networks

Yazdi¹,

Hosseinzadeh²,

Jabbehdari³

2017

ijacsa

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Abstract-During the last few years, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have emerged into many application domains, such as medicine, sport, entertainments, military, and monitoring. This emerging networking technology can be used for e-health monitoring. In this paper, we review the literature and investigate the challenges in the development architecture of WBANs. Then, we classified the challenges of WBANs that need to be addressed for their development. Moreover, we investigate the various diseases and healthcare systems and current state-ofthe-art of applications and mainly focus on the remote monitoring for elderly and chronically diseases patients. Finally, relevant research issues and future development are discussed.

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“…In order to collect health-related information from patients and residents, the WBAN system that uses a device including a radio transmitter attached to the body has received increasing attention, and this system is standardized in IEEE 802.15.6 [12] and [3]. It is used to collect the health information of a person for medical treatment and nursing care.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These include advancements such as sharing of electronic medical charts and managerial technique over a network, wireless body area networks (WBANs) that collect vital health information of a person for health care [3], and the telemedicine technology that helps diagnosis over the Internet.…”

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confidence: 99%

Proposal of ZigBee Systems for the Provision of Location Information and Transmission of Sensor Data in Medical Welfare

Hiraguri¹,

Aoyagi²,

Yoshiaki³

et al. 2015

ETSN

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This paper proposes a scheme to obtain location and vital health information using ZigBee system. ZigBee systems are wireless communication systems defined by IEEE 802.154. In the proposed scheme, location information is obtained using the Link Quality Indication (LQI) function of a ZigBee system, which represents the received signal strength. And, the vital health information are collected from the electrocardiogram monitor, the pulse and blood pressure device, attached to the patient's body. This information is then transmitted to an outside network by ZigBee systems. In this way, vital health information can be transmitted as ZigBee sensor data while patients with the ZigBee terminal are moving. In the experiments using actual ZigBee devices, the proposed scheme could obtain accurate location and vital health information from the sensor data. Moreover, to achieve high reliability in the actual service, the collected amount of sensor data was confirmed by the theoretic calculation, when a ZigBee terminal passed through ZigBee routers. These results indicate that the proposed scheme can be used to detect the accurate location of the ZigBee terminal. And over 99% of the sensor data on vital health information was obtained when the ZigBee terminal passed through approximately four ZigBee routers.

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Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) Design Techniques and Performance Evaluation

Cited by 118 publications

References 16 publications

Medium Access Control (MAC) for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN): Superframe structure, multiple access technique, taxonomy, and challenges

Medium Access Control (MAC) for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN): Superframe structure, multiple access technique, taxonomy, and challenges

A Review of State-of-the-Art on Wireless Body Area Networks

Proposal of ZigBee Systems for the Provision of Location Information and Transmission of Sensor Data in Medical Welfare

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