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.

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 A Review on Body Area Networks Security for Healthcare

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang He Zhang ◽  
Carmen Chung Yan Poon ◽  
Yuan Ting Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Key Management ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Secure Information ◽  
Management Schemes ◽  
Future Research Directions

Body area networks (BANs) are emerging as one of the main research trends in recent years, particularly in the area of personal health monitoring. Since health data are private and sensitive information, the security of data transmission within a BAN becomes a critical issue that requires immediate attention. In this paper, we attempt to examine possible attacks of the resource-constrained BANs and present state-of-the-art communication protocols, cryptographic methods, and key management schemes that are useful for BANs security. We will also discuss the problems of existing solutions and possible future research directions on security for BANs. A novel biometric method that utilizes the biological channels (biochannels) to assist secure information transmission within a BAN will also be highlighted and discussed.

Energy Harvesting-Assisted Cognitive Sensor Nodes in Wireless Body Area Networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alok Kumar Shukla ◽  
Prabhat K. Upadhyay ◽  
Abhishek Srivastava ◽  
Jules M. Moualeu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Body Area

scholarly journals MAC Protocol in Wireless Body Area Network for Mobile Health: A Survey and an Architecture Design

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Qi ◽  
Kun Wang ◽  
AnPeng Huang ◽  
Haifeng Hu ◽  
Guangjie Han
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Networks ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Medium Access

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have become a leading solution in mobile health (mHealth). Typically, a WBAN consists of in-body or around-body sensor nodes for collecting data of physiological feature. For a WBAN to provide high throughput and low delay in an energy-efficient way, designing an efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol is of paramount importance because the MAC layer coordinates nodes’ access to the shared wireless medium. To show the difference of MAC protocols between Energy-Harvesting wireless body area networks (EH-WBANs) and battery powered WBANs (BT-WBANs), this paper surveys the latest progresses in energy harvesting techniques and WBAN MAC protocol designs. Furthermore, a novel energy utility architecture is designed to enable sensor node lifetime operation in an EH-WBAN.

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