Recently, increasing demand for remote healthcare monitoring systems poses a specific set
of Quality of Services (QoS) requirements to the MAC layer protocols and standards (IEEE …

Recently, interest in the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) for patient monitoring has
grown significantly. Therefore, very interesting researches are concentrating on enhancing …

The energy consumption in the wireless sensor networks is a very critical issue which
attracts immediate attention for the sake of the growing demand of the billion dollar market in …

We propose a novel harvesting technology to inconspicuously transduce mechanical energy
from human foot-strikes and explore its configuration and control toward optimized energy …

Wearable sensor systems will soon become part of the available medical tools for remote
and long term physiological monitoring. However, the set of variables involved in the …

A first-rate e-Health system saves lives, provides better patient care, allows complex but
useful epidemiologic analysis and saves money. However, there may also be concerns …

The Model Based Design (MBD) approach is a popular trend to speed up application
development of embedded systems, which uses high-level abstractions to capture functional …

We describe a simulation-based Design Space Exploration procedure (DynDSE) for
wearable IoT edge devices that retrieve events from streaming sensor data using context …

In this paper we investigate the impact of potential hardware misbehavior induced by
reliability issues and scaled voltages in wireless body sensor network (WBSN) nodes. Our …

As sensor equipped wearable systems enter the mainstream, system longevity and power-
efficiency issues hamper large scale and long-term deployment, despite substantial …