Flexible Substrate based Printed Wearable Antennas for Wireless Body Area Networks Medical Applications (Review)

The emergence of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) in recent times has diverted the attention of most researchers towards the field of wearable antennas. The WBAN has enabled communication between different devices by placing them on human body. This work is a review which intends to disclose the recent developments in the area of wearable Textile antennas for WBAN. Further the use of different textile materials has been studied and their performances have been evaluated. The results show that use of textile materials have not only increased the efficiency but also they are very flexible and make the antenna suitable for on/off body applications such as medical and military. The properties of antennas inside human body, on human body and finally at some distance from the human body have been studied. It has been noted that as the distance between human body and antenna reduces, the properties of antenna such as efficiency, directivity and gain degrade more and more. Also the resonant frequency of antenna shifts from its original position which is a very big issue and needs to be rectified. For textile materials the shift in resonant frequency is not too much and also the degradation in other properties of antenna such as efficiency, directivity and gain are insignificant.

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A Review of Wireless Body Area Networks for Medical Applications

International Journal of Communications Network and System Sciences ◽

10.4236/ijcns.2009.28093 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 02 (08) ◽

pp. 797-803 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

Author(s):

Sana ULLAH ◽

Pervez KHAN ◽

Niamat ULLAH ◽

Shahnaz SALEEM ◽

Henry HIGGINS ◽

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Keyword(s):

Body Area Networks ◽

Wireless Body Area Networks ◽

Medical Applications ◽

Body Area

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WiCop: Engineering WiFi Temporal White-Spaces for Safe Operations of Wireless Body Area Networks in Medical Applications

2011 IEEE 32nd Real-Time Systems Symposium ◽

10.1109/rtss.2011.23 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Yufei Wang ◽

Qixin Wang ◽

Zheng Zeng ◽

Guanbo Zheng ◽

Rong Zheng

Keyword(s):

Body Area Networks ◽

Wireless Body Area Networks ◽

Medical Applications ◽

Body Area ◽

White Spaces

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Wearable Wireless Body Area Networks for Medical Applications

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine ◽

10.1155/2021/5574376 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

Carlos A. Tavera ◽

Jesús H. Ortiz ◽

Osamah I. Khalaf ◽

Diego F. Saavedra ◽

Theyazn H. H. Aldhyani

Keyword(s):

Electromagnetic Waves ◽

Body Area Networks ◽

Wireless Body Area Networks ◽

The Body ◽

The Internet ◽

Medical Applications ◽

Body Area ◽

Freedom Of Movement ◽

Telecommunication Equipment

In recent times, there has been a significant growth in networks known as the wireless body area networks (WBANs). A WBAN connects distributed nodes throughout the human body, which can be placed on the skin, under the skin, or on clothing and can use the human body’s electromagnetic waves. An approach to reduce the size of different telecommunication equipment is constantly being sought; this allows these devices to be closer to the body or even glued and embedded within the skin without making the user feel uncomfortable or posing as a danger for the user. These networks promise new medical applications; however, these are always based on the freedom of movement and the comfort they offer. Among the advantages of these networks is that they can significantly increase user’s quality of life. For example, a person can carry a WBAN with built-in sensors that calculate the user’s heart rate at any given time and send these data over the internet to user’s doctor. This study provides a systematic review of WBAN, describing the applications and trends that have been developed with this type of network and, in addition, the protocols and standards that must be considered.

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