Optical Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications

2016 ◽  
pp. 569-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Julien-Vergonjanne ◽  
Stéphanie Sahuguède ◽  
Ludovic Chevalier
Keyword(s):  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Healthcare Applications

scholarly journals Channel Characterization and Modeling for Optical Wireless Body-Area Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 760-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oussama Haddad ◽  
Mohammad-Ali Khalighi ◽  
Stanislav Zvanovec ◽  
Mouloud Adel
Keyword(s):  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Channel Characterization

scholarly journals Survey of main challenges (security and privacy) in wireless body area networks for healthcare applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samaher Al-Janabi ◽  
Ibrahim Al-Shourbaji ◽  
Mohammad Shojafar ◽  
Shahaboddin Shamshirband
Keyword(s):  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Healthcare Applications

scholarly journals Performance issues in wireless body area networks for the healthcare application: a survey and future prospects

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingling Liu ◽  
Kefa G. Mkongwa ◽  
Chaozhu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Performance Optimization ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Network Reliability ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Spectrum Management ◽  
Systemic Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Healthcare Applications

AbstractThis study presents a survey of the current issues, application areas, findings, and performance challenges in wireless body area networks (WBAN). The survey discusses selected areas in WBAN signal processing, network reliability, spectrum management, security, and WBAN integration with other technologies for highly efficient future healthcare applications. The foundation of the study bases on the recent growing advances in microelectronic technology and commercialization, which ease device availability, miniaturization, and communication. The survey considers a systemic review conducted using reports, standard documents, and peer-reviewed articles. Based on the comprehensive review, we find WBANs faces several operational, standardization, and security issues, affecting performance and maintenance of user safety and privacy. We envision the increasing dependency of future healthcare on WBAN for medical and non-medical applications due to internet connectivity advances. In this view, despite the WBAN advantages in remote health monitoring, further studies need to be conducted for performance optimization. Therefore we finalize our study by proposing various current and future research directions and open issues in WBAN’s performance enhancement.

QoS Concepts and Architecture Over Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications

2012 ◽  
pp. 114-130
Author(s):  
Lamia Chaari ◽  
Lotfi Kamoun
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Bandwidth Allocation ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Qos Architecture ◽  
Research Areas

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) applications have emerged as one of the most recent research areas of wireless sensor networks. Lots of research is improving QoS factors in sensor networks. However, QoS requirements vary from application to application, WBAN applications are very sensitive, and QoS issues in WBAN need major concern and focus. This paper outlines the WBANs QoS requirements and factors and reviews with emphasis on their strengths some medium access mechanisms that response to some QoS challenges. Moreover, the authors have defined and specified a QWBAN MAC protocol that can allow the integration of QoS architecture over WBAN. A set of QoS modules such as admission control (CAC), bandwidth allocation and scheduling are discussed. Besides that, an integrated QoS architecture is suggested for WBAN to support healthcare applications.

A Survey of Routing Protocols in Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadda Ben Elhadj ◽  
Lamia Chaari ◽  
Lotfi Kamoun
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Routing Protocols ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Communication Architecture

Recent advances in electronics and integrated circuits have fostered the development of small and intelligent medical sensors and actuators that are wearable or implementable inside the human body. The main function of these devices is to collect patient’s physiological parameters and forward them to the medical center in an efficient and reliable way. Therefore, routing is a non-trivial task in wireless body area networks (WBAN); sensing the importance of routing in WBAN and the availability of a significant body of literature on this topic are the main motivations that encourage the study and examination of routing mechanisms. This paper proposes WBAN routing approaches. It outlines the design challenges for WBAN routing protocols and sketches out the communication architecture of this type of network. The authors’ main contribution is the classification of the routing techniques into six main categories, which corresponds to thermal aware routing protocols, cluster based routing protocols, cross layers based routing protocols, quality of service (QoS) aware routing protocols, and delay tolerant aware routing protocols. The advantages and performance issues of each routing technique are highlighted. This paper is useful for researchers to make enhancements to the future design of WBAN routing protocols and algorithms.

QoS Concepts and Architecture Over Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lamia Chaari ◽  
Lotfi Kamoun
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Bandwidth Allocation ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Qos Architecture ◽  
Research Areas

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) applications have emerged as one of the most recent research areas of wireless sensor networks. Lots of research is improving QoS factors in sensor networks. However, QoS requirements vary from application to application, WBAN applications are very sensitive, and QoS issues in WBAN need major concern and focus. This paper outlines the WBANs QoS requirements and factors and reviews with emphasis on their strengths some medium access mechanisms that response to some QoS challenges. Moreover, the authors have defined and specified a QWBAN MAC protocol that can allow the integration of QoS architecture over WBAN. A set of QoS modules such as admission control (CAC), bandwidth allocation and scheduling are discussed. Besides that, an integrated QoS architecture is suggested for WBAN to support healthcare applications.

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