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.

scholarly journals Link Reliability and Performance Optimization in Wireless Body Area Networks

IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 155392-155404
Author(s):  
Kefa G. Mkongwa ◽  
Qingling Liu ◽  
Chaozhu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Performance Optimization ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Link Reliability ◽  
And Performance

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 A Survey on Energy Harvesting and Integrated Data Sharing in Wireless Body Area Networks

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoling Xu ◽  
Lei Shu ◽  
Mohsen Guizani ◽  
Mei Liu ◽  
Junye Lu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Body Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Future Research Directions

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are important branches of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). They promise unobtrusive ambulatory health monitoring for real-time updates of patients’ medical records that have aroused extensive attention in various fields. In recent years, one can find a lot of researches related to WBANs that have appeared in these literatures. But there are still many key issues that need to be further investigated. This paper briefly introduces the architecture and features of WBANs. In this attempt, we focus mostly on energy acquisition, data integration and data sharing, and collaboration of WBANs, from the viewpoint of energy harvesting development, the social network and smartphone application in WBANs, and the integration of WBANs and cloud system networks computing to analyze related issues of WBANs. Finally, we put forward concluding remarks with several future research directions.

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.

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