scholarly journals Real-time Health Monitoring System Using Wireless Body Area Network

Wireless body area network (WBAN) being a sub-domain of wireless sensor network (WSN) is a new emerging technology for healthcare applications. A WBAN consists of low-power tiny wireless nodes placed on or around the human body that continuously observe vital health signs of a patient. These sensors are capable of sending information of physiological parameters taken from human body to other devices for diagnosis procedures and prescription. WBAN provides ubiquitous healthcare services and enables greater mobility without restricting human normal activities, as the medical personnel can observe the patient health conditions based on the data received through the wireless network. This research work provides a WBAN based healthcare monitoring system that can provide the electrocardiogram (ECG), heartbeat, and human body temperature information. The wireless transmission of the received data from human body is performed by using Zigbee IEEE802.15.4 communication standard. The physiological data will be communicated to remote medical server where data is stored and analyzed. In case any disease is diagnosed, medical personnel can provide immediate assistance to the patients.

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a collection of miniaturized sensing nodes and coordinator nodes. These sensing nodes are placed in, on and around the body for uninterrupted monitoring of physiological data for medical applications. The main application carrier of WBAN is the human body and due to human body movement and physiological changes, the WBAN traffic fluctuates greatly. This network traffic fluctuation requires good network adaptability. In addition to traffic fluctuations, energy consumption is another key problem with WBANs as sensing nodes are very small in size. This paper design a reliable protocol by extending the MAC protocol for reducing energy consumption, PAP algorithm to decide data transmission rate and JOAR algorithm to select the optimize path for the data transmission. The performance of the algorithm outperforms other state of art algorithms to shows its significance.


2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raluca Marin-Perianu ◽  
Mihai Marin-Perianu ◽  
Paul Havinga ◽  
Simon Taylor ◽  
Rezaul Begg ◽  
...  

IEEE Access ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 11413-11422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taiyang Wu ◽  
Fan Wu ◽  
Jean-Michel Redoute ◽  
Mehmet Rasit Yuce

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 4459-4473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Lin ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Xing Zhang ◽  
Xinan Wang ◽  
Tingbin Ouyang ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyeol Kwon ◽  
Jaegeun Ha ◽  
Soonyong Lee ◽  
Jaehoon Choi

A dual-band on-body antenna for a wireless body area network repeater system is proposed. The designed dual-band antenna has the maximum radiation directed toward the inside of the human body in the medical implantable communication service (MICS) band in order to collect vital information from the human body and directed toward the outside in the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band to transmit that information to a monitoring system. In addition, the return loss property of the antenna is insensitive to human body effects by utilizing the epsilon negative zeroth-order resonance property.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jianglong Yang ◽  
Wanlin Yang ◽  
Huwei Liu ◽  
Li Zhou

Wearable medical devices rely on the human body to form a small LAN around the human body, called body area network (BAN). Users can use these devices to monitor the changes of various body indicators in real time. The physiological data involved in this process belongs to personal privacy. Therefore, the security requirements of BAN are relatively high, and its current research focus is on authentication mechanisms. To meet the requirements of security and resource consumption of BAN, this paper proposes a lightweight identity authentication mechanism that meets the characteristics of BAN resource constraints. Based on the characteristics of BAN, a simple and mature star topology structure is applied to establish the network model of BAN. For the human body in normal situations and emergencies, the corresponding authentication mechanism and encryption and decryption method of physiological data are designed by using the physical unclonable function (PUF) and cloud database, physiological data, and cross-correlation algorithm. Furthermore, the formal and informal security analysis of the designed authentication mechanism proves that the authentication mechanism designed in this paper has certain security, and the lightweight authentication mechanism is simulated and evaluated. The experimental results show that compared with the benchmarking mechanism, the authentication mechanism designed in this paper solves more security problems and has certain advantages in terms of calculation cost, communication cost, and energy cost.


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