Abstract A Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a network of wireless devices that are
used to monitor the health of individuals or provide them with information pertinent to their …

Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) have proven effective in improving quality of medical
services by providing continuous and ambulatory healthcare monitoring. Realistic system …

A combinatorial system reliability modeling method is proposed to consider the effects of
correlated probabilistic competing failures caused by the probabilistic-functional …

Ageing population has been on rise around the globe. This can be attributed to availability of
better healthcare resources; however, the rapid growth in elderly population which will …

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) expand computation capability to physical environments
that are unreachable for human beings. Environmental monitoring, military, healthcare, and …

With recent advancements in Internet technologies and wireless communications, wireless
sensor network (WSN)‐based smart systems are gaining an enormous increase in use in …

Evaluating the reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is of great importance
especially for WSNs designed for mission-critical applications. In this paper, we propose a …

Wireless sensor networks can be deployed in remote areas for monitoring rainforest, bio-
diversity, detecting forest fire or even surveillance. In such remote monitoring applications …

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a distributed system composed of autonomous sensor
nodes wireless connected and randomly scattered into a geographical area to cooperatively …

Communication reliability of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is essential to ensure the
correct and reliable operation of the network. Two distinct communication paradigms exist in …