scholarly journals Wearable Wireless Body Area Networks for Medical Applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Carlos A. Tavera ◽  
Jesús H. Ortiz ◽  
Osamah I. Khalaf ◽  
Diego F. Saavedra ◽  
Theyazn H. H. Aldhyani
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Telecommunication Equipment

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 the human body’s electromagnetic waves. An approach to reduce the size of different telecommunication equipment is constantly being sought; this allows these devices to be closer to the body or even glued and embedded within the skin without making the user feel uncomfortable or posing as a danger for the user. These networks promise new medical applications; however, these are always based on the freedom of movement and the comfort they offer. Among the advantages of these networks is that they can significantly increase user’s quality of life. For example, a person can carry a WBAN with built-in sensors that calculate the user’s heart rate at any given time and send these data over the internet to user’s doctor. This study provides a systematic review of WBAN, describing the applications and trends that have been developed with this type of network and, in addition, the protocols and standards that must be considered.

Preliminary UWB channel study for wireless body area networks in medical applications

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Attaphongse Taparugssanagorn ◽  
Carlos Pomalaza Raez ◽  
Ari Isola ◽  
Raffaello Tesi ◽  
Matti Hamalainen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Uwb Channel

Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Transmission Reliability ◽  
Health Field

Motivated by the increasing need for improved healthcare solutions, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have shown their great potential in revolutionizing the next generation healthcare through enabling continuous monitoring of health status with early detection of abnormal situations. Such networks are able to support a diverse range of applications with traffic rates ranging from several bits per hour up to 10 megabits per second. For the efficient functionality of these applications, each one poses a specific set of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements to the Medium Access Control (MAC) sub-layer including transmission reliability, timeliness and throughput. However, energy limitations of WBANs make the satisfaction of these requirements a challenging task. The current paper aims to explore the application trends of WBANs in the health field as well as the salient features of the MAC protocols proposed for this class of networks, and to provide a general rule indicating the most suitable MAC technology for WBANs based on the characteristics of the targeted application.

A Study of Wireless Body Area Networks and its Routing Protocols for Healthcare Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-152
Author(s):  
Ramanpreet Kaur ◽  
Ruchi Pasricha ◽  
Bikrampal Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Routing Protocols ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Important Conclusion ◽  
Specific Protocol ◽  
Monitoring Applications

Background: The increased cost of treatments in the health care industry and advancements in technologies have led to a promising area of development in Wireless Sensor Networks and semiconductor technologies. Wireless Body Area Networks is a subset of WSN in which sensor nodes are placed on the human body or implanted inside the body to determine various physical parameters of the human body. This information is forwarded to the medical centers or central servers through gateways. The direct advantage of this technology is the existence of portable health monitoring applications as well as location independent monitoring applications. But, still, the existence of smart hospitals needs a lot of focused research related to practical problems faced by patients as well as practitioners. Introduction: The aim of this paper is to present an essential depiction of WBAN development in both medical and non- medical applications. The important features of various wireless technologies supported by WBAN have also been presented. It is apparent that to determine the overall performance of a network in terms of different parameters like temperature, power consumption, throughput and delay, etc., a significant role is played by the routing protocols. Since WBAN directly deals with the human body and hence implementation of a new protocol is a challenging task before researchers, this paper reviews each category of routing protocols and their corresponding limitations. A comparison among routing protocols will guide researchers in implementing a specific protocol for targeted application. The paper also focuses on the future of WBAN which will provide the research areas for further exploration. Conclusion: It is found that QoS aware protocols are employed specifically for critical applications. If we consider radiation imparted from the sensors and tissue protection of the human body, the thermal aware routing protocol is the solution. Another important conclusion of this paper is that the various protocols do not provide an optimal solution for selecting the forward node during routing and this solution primarily depends on the residual energy of the nodes and distance of the node from the sink. A study of protocols developed from 2004 onwards till date shows that implementation of WBAN using integration of IoT, EoT, and fog computing has been the emerging topic of research in recent years.

scholarly journals Modeling on Body Delay Tolerant Network Sink Locality of Wireless Body Area Networks for Different Body Postures

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Anthony M. Mile
Keyword(s):  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
The Body ◽  
Delay Tolerant Network ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Body Sensors ◽  
Area Of Concern ◽  
Delay Tolerant ◽  
Entire Network

Due to the recent advancements in the field of wireless communication and Wireless Sensor Networks, the Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have become an area of concern for researchers. In military operations, patient monitoring, sports field, among other wireless body area networks is used for real time monitoring and smart sensing for eHealth operations.In these WBAN, disconnections between the body sensors occur quite often and sometimes of significant duration due to the postural mobility nature of the human. These consequently affects the efficiency of the entire network hence the need for Delay Tolerant Network (DTN). The DTN minimizes delays and adapts itself to cope with long delays if they occur. One of the vital mechanisms that can be employed to enhance the efficiency of the network is to determine the optimal postural locality of the sink node.

scholarly journals TAEO-A Thermal Aware & Energy Optimized Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (15) ◽  
pp. 3275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsin Javed ◽  
Ghufran Ahmed ◽  
Danish Mahmood ◽  
Mohsin Raza ◽  
Kamran Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Control ◽  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Remote Health

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are in the spotlight of researchers and engineering industries due to many applications. Remote health monitoring for general as well as military purposes where tiny sensors are attached or implanted inside the skin of the body to sense the required attribute is particularly prominent. To seamlessly accomplish this procedure, there are various challenges, out of which temperature control to reduce thermal effects and optimum power consumption to reduce energy wastage are placed at the highest priority. Regular and consistent operation of a sensor node for a long-time result in a rising of the temperature of respective tissues, where it is attached or implanted. This temperature rise has harmful effects on human tissues, which may lead to the tissue damage. In this paper, a Temperate Aware and Energy Optimized (TAEO) routing protocol is proposed that not only deals with the thermal aspects and hot spot problem, but also extends the stability and lifetime of a network. Analytical simulations are conducted, and the results depict better performance in terms of the network lifetime, throughput, energy preservation, and temperature control with respect to state of the art WBAN protocols.

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