Wireless Body Area Networks: Challenges, Trends and Emerging Technologies

Antonescu, Bogdan; Basagni, Stefano

doi:10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253722

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“…WBANs can also be deployed in life-threatening environments to help protect soldiers, first responders and deep-sea or space explorers. Therefore, technologies to improve the reliability of WBANs are always attracted by researchers [1].…”

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A Free-Access Segmented Coplanar Waveguide for On-Body Communication

Lân

Shinozaki

Okura

et al. 2018

IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat.

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A segmented coplanar waveguide (SCPW) is presented in this paper to improve the propagation characteristics of on-body communication. The SCPW is connected electromagnetically by two half-wavelength resonators arranged on both sides of the center line. The resonators provide the function to couple the SCPW with the top and bottom antennas at arbitrary positions along the line, which is a unique feature of the proposed geometry. The basic performance of the SCPW was confirmed at 5.12 GHz by a thin dielectric substrate and at 2.45 GHz by a flexible paper substrate with a silver-ink conductor. The propagation loss is reduced more than 20dB by this SCPW in on-body communication between abdomen and back sides, which is confirmed by the measurement using a phantom.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Free-Access Segmented Coplanar Waveguide for On-Body Communication

Lân

Shinozaki

Okura

et al. 2018

IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat.

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“…Their challenges in WBAN MAC protocols were presented by Gopalan and Park [53]. These include collisions, overhearing, and idle listening techniques [40]. In the application layer of a WBAN, organizing the data and producing meaningful information that evolves into knowledge are important challenges, according to Alemdar and Ersoy [52].…”

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“…Ullah et al [1] and Chen et al [5] are key researchers. Antonescu and Basagni [40] have summarized recent WBAN technologies very well.…”

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“…A MAC protocol is at the core of any communications protocol and affects the quality of service (QoS). One of the most important roles of the MAC protocol is to attenuate the effect of collisions and to achieve the maximum possible throughput with minimum latency [40]. The main objectives of a MAC protocol include collision-free transfer, robustness against communications errors, energy efficiency, and real-time patient monitoring [23].…”

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Technologies and Research Trends in Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare: A Systematic Literature Review

2015

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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Owing to the increasing interest in the integration of the medical technology and the information and communications technology, research on wireless body area networks (WBANs), which apply a sensor network to the human body, is being actively conducted. Existing sensor network technology has the potential to be used in a WBAN; however, it has some limitations. In particular, a WBAN has a very different network environment compared to a sensor network that uses free space, because wireless sensors in a BAN transmit through parts of the human body. Therefore, research on WBANs involves a variety of research areas that differ slightly from those of conventional sensor networks and take into account the characteristics of the human body. This study investigates the environmental characteristics of a WBAN that differ from conventional sensor networks and examines the areas that have been studied in academia to realize more efficient WBANs. From studies published since 2001, when the concept of the WBAN was introduced, research trends in WBANs were investigated using the systematic literature review (SLR) technique. The investigation in this study includes the classification of research and research fields in line with research content. Further, survey results are presented and the outlook for further study is summarized.

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“…MAC protocols used by [7] in WBAN stressed that they must be accurate with low power consumption and latency. The main objective of an MAC protocol lies in the real-time patient monitoring system.It must be good energy efficient and allows collision-free transfer [14][15]. MAC protocols can be categorized as: scheduled and random access protocols.…”

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A Review on Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) for Health Monitoring System: Implementation Protocols

Sindhu¹,

Vashisth²,

Chakarvarti³

2016

CAE

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As in the present era use of wireless networks is increasing day by day and the electrical devices are getting smaller; both factors expand the research area of Wireless Body Area Networks(WBAN).The devices used in WBAN can record various physiological parameters like the body temperature, the BP or to take ECG, EEG, etc. With the use of WBAN, a patient experiences a greater physical mobility. The patients need not stay longer in the hospital as WBANs are placed on the human body and often transport private data; Security is considered as an important issue. It will in turn increase the quality of patient care and the productivity of hospital staff. Field of Wireless Body Area Networks comes up as a major research area in past few years as it is beneficial in health monitoring even in remote areas and patient's care can be done in real time. However, if the security of patient's data is concerned with WBANs, design issues should be taken care of. In the present paper, a short review on various aspects of Wireless Body area Network, various implementation techniques and MAC protocols are discussed. The technique which is best suited to the user is also presented.

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Wireless Body Area Networks: Challenges, Trends and Emerging Technologies

Cited by 42 publications

References 63 publications

A Free-Access Segmented Coplanar Waveguide for On-Body Communication

A Free-Access Segmented Coplanar Waveguide for On-Body Communication

Technologies and Research Trends in Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare: A Systematic Literature Review

A Review on Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) for Health Monitoring System: Implementation Protocols

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