Technological aspects of WBANs for health monitoring: a comprehensive review

R Punj, R Kumar - Wireless Networks, 2019 - Springer
Abstract According to the World Health Organization, most of the world population is affected
by chronic diseases, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes while another dominant …

Wireless technologies, medical applications and future challenges in WBAN: A survey

H Taleb, A Nasser, G Andrieux, N Charara… - Wireless …, 2021 - Springer
Interest and need for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have significantly increased
recently. WBAN consists of miniaturized sensors designed to collect and transmit data …

A comprehensive survey of energy-aware routing protocols in wireless body area sensor networks

M Effatparvar, M Dehghan, AM Rahmani - Journal of medical systems, 2016 - Springer
Wireless body area sensor network is a special purpose wireless sensor network that,
employing wireless sensor nodes in, on, or around the human body, makes it possible to …

Energy-efficient and distributed network management cost minimization in opportunistic wireless body area networks

A Samanta, S Misra - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobility induced by limb/body movements in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)
significantly affects the linkquality of intra-BAN and inter-BAN communication units, which, in …

On research challenges in hybrid medium-access control protocols for IEEE 802.15. 6 WBANs

A Saboor, R Ahmad, W Ahmed, AK Kiani… - IEEE Sensors …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE 802.15. 6 is a wireless body area network (WBAN) standard proposed to facilitate the
exponentially growing interest in the field of health monitoring. This standard is flexible and …

Relay-based communications in WBANs: A comprehensive survey

A Vyas, S Pal, BK Saha - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) constitute an emerging technology in the field of
health care that makes health monitoring possible from one's home itself. WBANs open …

Experimental analysis of cross-layer optimization for distributed wireless body-to-body networks

SM Shimly, DB Smith, S Movassaghi - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the performance of cross-layer optimized routing across distributed wireless
body-to-body networks (BBNs), based on real-life experimental measurements. Two types of …

A survey on energy efficient routing protocols in wireless body area networks (WBAN)

A Kurian, R Divya - 2017 international conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless body area network is a special purpose wireless sensor network that employs
wireless sensor nodes in, on, or around the human body, and makes it possible to measure …

[HTML][HTML] From sensing to energy savings: A comprehensive survey on integrating emerging technologies for energy efficiency in WBANs

S Javaid, H Fahim, S Zeadally, B He - Digital Communications and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Energy is essential for human existence, and its high consumption is a growing concern in
today's technology-driven society. Global initiatives aim to reduce energy consumption and …

Cross-layer MAC/routing protocol for reliable communication in Internet of Health Things

UF Abbasi, N Haider, A Awang… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet of Health Things (IoHT) involves intelligent, low-powered, and miniaturized sensors
nodes that measure physiological signals and report them to sink nodes over wireless links …