This paper considers correlated, probabilistic competing failures in the reliability analysis of
relay-assisted wireless body area networks (WBANs). Particularly failure competitions exist …

Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) have been developed to provide real-time, ubiquitous health
monitoring and diagnosis for human beings. Due to their life-critical applications, it is …

Abstract Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) have been developed to provide wearable, real-time
health monitoring systems for many life-critical applications that require a high level of …

Relayed communications are typically used in body sensor networks (BSNs) to improve
reliability and energy efficiency. Particularly, a biosensor communicates with the sink device …

A wireless body area network (WBAN) is a network of low-power devices including smart
sensors situated in, on, or around the human body to monitor the physiological and motion …

Body sensor networks (BSNs) are playing a crucial role in tackling arising challenges during
the COVID-19 pandemic. This work contributes by modeling and analyzing the BSN …

This paper identifies and models competitions between probabilistic isolation effect and
failure propagation effect in reliability analysis of relay-assisted wireless sensor networks …

Body Area Networks (BANs) are only recently beginning to revolutionize e-healthcare by
making monitoring of various patients accessible and convenient for physicians and …

Network lifetime is of great importance in WBANs that significantly influences the network
performance and user experience. Among all the solutions to extend the network lifetime …

This paper considers phase-dependent probabilistic failure competitions in reliability
analysis of wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. Particularly, a WSN can experience …