scholarly journals Multi-Objective Optimization of a Wireless Body Area Network for Varying Body Positions

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 3406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Januszkiewicz ◽  
Paolo Di Barba ◽  
Sławomir Hausman
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Design Procedure ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Field Analysis ◽  
Evolutionary Strategy ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area

The purpose of this research was to improve the performance of a wireless body area sensor network, operating on a person in the seated and standing positions. Optimization-focused on both the on-body transmission channel and off-body link performance. The system consists of three nodes. One node (on the user’s head) is fixed, while the positions of the other two (one on the user’s trunk and the other on one leg) with respect to the body (local coordinates) are design variables. The objective function used in the design process is characterized by two components: the first controls the wireless channel for on-body data transmission between the three sensor nodes, while the second controls the off-body transmission between the nodes and a remote transceiver. The optimal design procedure exploits a low-cost Estra, which is an evolutionary strategy optimization algorithm linked with Remcom XFdtd, a full-wave Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) electromagnetic field analysis package. The Pareto-like approach applied in this study searches for a non-dominated solution that gives the best compromise between on-body and off-body performance.

scholarly journals Survey on multi-channel schemes in wireless body area network

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.29) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
M Raj Kumar Naik ◽  
P Samundiswary
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Single Channel ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Technical Requirements

The evolution and empowerment of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is achieved through the rapid advancement in the wireless communication technologies. The use of different kinds of sensors which are utilized in the health care applications for patient monitoring are helped for diagnosis of life threatening disease which can be improved by using WBAN. These wearable systems help in controlling the life of patient is as they play essential role to save patient’s life. In recent past, the system architecture is constructed for WBAN for monitoring of health care application and enhancing the technical requirements in a WBAN network. Although, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) is one of the emanate technology which utilizes the patient health condition for monitoring in real time, several issues that are faced by WBAN are Quality of Service (QoS), security, data loss, authentication, channel issues and energy efficiency. Most of the WBANs utilizes wireless channel for process of communication in which these typical sensors with single transceiver device transmits the information with low power by utilizing a single channel using Medium Access Control (MAC) layer in WBAN. However, the degradation in performance of these devices is high when the sensors density is increased. The solution to overcome this performance degradation is carried out by making use of multiple channels, due to which the channels are optimally utilized and the cooperation among the sensor nodes is achieved. In this paper, the survey of different protocols used for WBAN under different channel conditions is discussed in WBANs with its merits.   

scholarly journals A Review of Energy Efficiency in Wireless Body Area/Sensor Networks, With Emphasis on MAC Protocol

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Ogheneochuko Ubrurhe ◽  
Nigel Houlden ◽  
Peter S. Excell
Keyword(s):  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
The Body ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Body Area Sensor Networks ◽  
Wireless Medium

The increasing use of wireless communication and the continuous miniaturisation of electronics devices have brought about the concept of Wireless Body Area Network (WBANs). In these types of networks, the sensor node operates in close proximity to the body and also the wireless nature of the system presents various novel, real-time and new methods to improve health care delivery. The sensor is capable of measuring any parameter which it has been designed to read, for example the heartrate and the body temperature. This paper presents a review of the concept of WBANs with a focus on the mechanism of data communication over the wireless medium. Further, it examines ways to power such devices, in particular focusing on minimisation of energy requirements, thereby reducing maintenance demands and contributing to making the environment ‘greener’.

scholarly journals E-PAP: Enhanced Priority Aware Protocol for Reliable Communication in Wireless Body Area Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 340-343
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a collection of miniaturized sensing nodes and coordinator nodes. These sensing nodes are placed in, on and around the body for uninterrupted monitoring of physiological data for medical applications. The main application carrier of WBAN is the human body and due to human body movement and physiological changes, the WBAN traffic fluctuates greatly. This network traffic fluctuation requires good network adaptability. In addition to traffic fluctuations, energy consumption is another key problem with WBANs as sensing nodes are very small in size. This paper design a reliable protocol by extending the MAC protocol for reducing energy consumption, PAP algorithm to decide data transmission rate and JOAR algorithm to select the optimize path for the data transmission. The performance of the algorithm outperforms other state of art algorithms to shows its significance.

Wrist Module as an Applied Health Monitoring System in Wireless Body Area Network System

2016 ◽  
Vol 833 ◽  
pp. 185-189
Author(s):  
Nur Alia Athirah Mohtadzar ◽  
Shigeru Takayama
Keyword(s):  
Exercise Intensity ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
The Body ◽  
Network System ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Unhealthy Lifestyle ◽  
Health Monitoring System ◽  
Lack Of Exercise ◽  
Type Of Exercise

Exercise intensity is classified into vigorous, moderate and low type of exercise intensity. They are classified based upon the amount of energy used by the body while doing the activity. Vigorous or over exercise may leads to over tiredness and physical problem while low or lack of exercise may leads to unhealthy lifestyle. Therefore, moderate exercise or regular physical activity in daily life helps to improve overall health and fitness and reduces the risk for many chronic diseases.

Energy Efficient Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)

2017 ◽  
pp. 413-432
Author(s):  
Prasenjit Maiti ◽  
Sourav Kanti Addya ◽  
Bibhudatta Sahoo ◽  
Ashok Kumar Turuk
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Information Privacy Concerns ◽  
The Cost

Healthcare expenses are a growing concern in most countries. This has forced medical researchers to look for trusted and ambulatory health monitoring of patient's vital signs. The objective is to reduce patient visits and the use of medical and support staff for frequent examinations. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) consist of implanted, or worn, tiny health monitoring sensor nodes so that the vital body parameters and the movements of the patient can be recorded and communicated to the medical facilities for processing, diagnosis and prescription. WBAN is required to have small form and low power consumption. Reducing energy consumption of the sensor and communication equipment is one of the key research areas. It is also important for WBAN be secure, protected and reliable. Failure to acquire authentic and correct medical data may prevent a patient from being treated effectively, or even lead to wrong treatments. As patient identity can be obtained by correlating physiological information, privacy concerns must be addressed for wide acceptance of the technology. While security is paramount, the cost of implementing security techniques in WBAN may be prohibitive. It, therefore, becomes necessary to find cryptographic solutions that consume less energy. Research efforts are being made to reduce the cost of cryptography used in WBAN. In this paper authors discuss the current and future security solutions for low energy WBAN.

Design, Measurements, and Analysis of Enhanced Bandwidth UWB

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-158
Author(s):  
Raghvendra Singh ◽  
Kanad Ray ◽  
Preecha Yupapin ◽  
Jalil Ali
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ultra Wideband ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
The Past ◽  
Military Systems ◽  
Healthcare Monitoring ◽  
Tracking Devices ◽  
Ambient Computing

Ambient computing enabled for body area networks have received much consideration over the past couple of years due to its applications in biomedical, healthcare monitoring, and military systems. Such systems are attracting users in other applications like gaming, fitness, sports, and other life style tools. The fast-moving lifestyle of people impelled them in a situation of less consideration of their health and sports, and it generated the need of healthcare monitoring and tracking devices. Advances in wireless technology and embedded technology have generated keen interest in antenna, mounted on or around the body to transmit or receive the vital data of human body to on-body or off-body systems. The proposed antenna is for the use in wireless body area network (WBAN), in UWB frequency range 3.1 GHz.-10.6 GHz. Enhanced bandwidth ultra wideband (EB-UWB) patch antenna consists of the dimensions 30 mm×27 mm×1.6 mm. The prototype is fabricated and tested in free space and on-body scenario.

Minimizing path loss and improving security in wireless body area networks

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinesh Kumar Anguraj ◽  
Abul Bashar ◽  
R. Nidhya ◽  
P.K. Shimna ◽  
Renjith V. Ravi
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Path Loss ◽  
The Body ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Sink Node ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is energy consumption and security. To extend the sensor’s life span, saving the energy in a sensor is important. In this paper, biosensors are implanted or suited on the human body, and then, transposition has been applied for biosensors for reducing the sensor distance from the sink node. After transposition path loss has been calculated, security is maintained and also compared the results with the existing strategies.Design/methodology/approachNowadays, one of the most emergent technologies is wireless body area network (WBAN), which represents to improve the quality of life and also allow for monitoring the remote patient and other health-care applications. Traffic routing plays a main role together with the relay nodes, which is used to collect the biosensor’s information and send it towards the sink.FindingsTo calculate the distance and observe the position, Euclidean distance technique is used. Path loss is the main parameter, which is needed to reduce for making better data transmission and to make the network stability. Routing protocols can be designed, with the help of proposed values of sensors locations in the human body, which gives good stability of network and lifetime. It helps to achieve as the less deplete energy.Originality/valueThis scheme is compared with the two existing schemes and shows the result in terms of parameter path loss. Moreover, this paper evaluated a new method for improving the security in WBAN. The main goal of this research is to find the optimal sensor location on the body and select the biosensor positions where they can get less energy while transmitting the data to the sink node, increasing the life span in biosensors, decreasing memory space, giving security, controlling the packet complexity and buffer overflow and also fixing the damages in the existing system.

scholarly journals Equalized Energy Consumption in Wireless Body Area Networks for a Prolonged Network Lifetime

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam El Azhari ◽  
Nadya El Moussaid ◽  
Ahmed Toumanari ◽  
Rachid Latif
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Network Lifetime ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Residual Energy ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Distributed Sensors

The phenomenal advances in electronics contributed to a widespread use of distributed sensors in wireless communications. A set of biosensors can be deployed or implanted in the human body to form a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), where various WBAN PHY layers are utilized. The WBAN allows the measurement of physiological data, which is forwarded by the gateway to the base station for analysis purposes. The main issue in conceiving a WBAN communication mechanism is to manage the residual energy of sensors. The mobile agent system has been widely applied for surveillance applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). It consists in dispatching one or more mobile agents simultaneously to collect data, while following a predetermined optimum itinerary. The continuous use of the optimal itinerary leads to a rapid depletion of sensor nodes batteries, which minimizes the network lifetime. This paper presents a new algorithm to equalize the energy consumption among sensor motes. The algorithm exploits all the available paths towards the destination and classifies them with respect to the end-to-end delay and the overall energy consumption. The proposed algorithm performs better compared to the optimal routing path. It increases the network lifetime to the maximum by postponing routing of data via the most-recently used path, and it also maintains data delivery within the delay interval threshold.

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