A comprehensive survey of wireless body area networks: On PHY, MAC, and network layers solutions

S Ullah, H Higgins, B Braem, B Latre, C Blondia… - Journal of medical …, 2012 - Springer
Recent advances in microelectronics and integrated circuits, system-on-chip design,
wireless communication and intelligent low-power sensors have allowed the realization of a …

A survey on M2M systems for mHealth: a wireless communications perspective

E Kartsakli, AS Lalos, A Antonopoulos, S Tennina… - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
In the new era of connectivity, marked by the explosive number of wireless electronic
devices and the need for smart and pervasive applications, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) …

A survey on wireless body area networks

B Latré, B Braem, I Moerman, C Blondia, P Demeester - Wireless networks, 2011 - Springer
The increasing use of wireless networks and the constant miniaturization of electrical
devices has empowered the development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). In …

Characterization of on-body communication channel and energy efficient topology design for wireless body area networks

E Reusens, W Joseph, B Latré, B Braem… - IEEE Transactions …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) offer many promising new applications in the area of
remote health monitoring. An important element in the development of a WBAN is the …

The wireless autonomous spanning tree protocol for multihop wireless body area networks

B Braem, B Latre, I Moerman, C Blondia… - 2006 Third Annual …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have gained a lot of interest in the world of medical
monitoring. Current implementations generally use a large single hop network to connect all …

A review of radio channel models for body centric communications

SL Cotton, R D'Errico, C Oestges - Radio Science, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The human body is an extremely challenging environment for the operation of wireless
communications systems, not least because of the complex antenna-body electromagnetic …

Bodyqos: Adaptive and radio-agnostic qos for body sensor networks

G Zhou, J Lu, CY Wan, MD Yarvis… - IEEE INFOCOM 2008 …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As wireless devices and sensors are increasingly deployed on people, researchers have
begun to focus on wireless body-area networks. Applications of wireless body sensor …

Investigating network architectures for body sensor networks

A Natarajan, M Motani, B de Silva, KK Yap… - Proceedings of the 1st …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
The choice of network architecture for body sensor networks is an important one because it
significantly affects overall system design and performance. Current approaches use …

Optimal design of energy-efficient and cost-effective wireless body area networks

J Elias - Ad Hoc Networks, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) represent one of the most promising
approaches for improving the quality of life, allowing remote patient monitoring and other …

Security and privacy in wireless body area networks for health care applications

SS Javadi, MA Razzaque - Wireless Networks and Security: Issues …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBANs) are becoming more and more
popular and have shown great potential in real-time monitoring of the human body. With the …