Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) technology provides a promising solution to improve patient care outcomes and lower healthcare costs. However, the current spectrum allocation cannot cater to increasing MBAN applications. Therefore, U.S., as well as other regions, have already been considering allocating a new spectrum for MBAN applications. In this paper we study a joint MBAN regulation propos...

IEEE 802.15.4 is a standard used for low data rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). It offers device level connectivity in applications with limited power and relaxed throughput requirements. Devices with IEEE 802.15.4 technology can be used in many potential applications such as home networking, industry/environments monitoring, healthcare equipments etc. due to its extremely low power...

Background: Real-time monitoring of patients is considered as the key issues in managing health care system. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) is one of the wise health care monitoring systems holding applications in numerous fields like medical, wellness, military, sports and so forth. The correspondence standard for wireless body area networks is characterized by the IEEE 802.15.6 for the op...

In Wearable Well-Being project PUHVI, HipGuard system for patients recovering from hip surgery was developed. Novel wireless sensors having 3-axis acceleration and 3-axis magnetic sensors are used to measure patient’s hip and leg position and rotation. Furthermore, capacitive insole sensors are used to measure the force between foot and a shoe. This paper concentrates on how these sensors can b...

Scenario Configuration  Complex system of multiple sensor nodes Ambient intelligence used to monitor physiological data WBAN simulation:  is essential before deployment in real world scenarios  is useful in studying energy efficiency requirements and application behavior  models the behavior of the medium access control (MAC) layer behavior which supports radio use of the physical (PHY) l...

This paper introduces the sensor-networked IoT model as a prototype to support the design of Body Area Network (BAN) applications for healthcare. Using the model, we analyze the synergistic effect of the functional requirements (data collection from the human body and transferring it to the top level) and non-functional requirements (trade-offs between energy-security-environmental factors, tre...

In recent year, the increasing number of wearable sensors on human can serve for many purposes like emergency care, health care remote monitoring, personal entertainment and communication etc. The healthcare application is used for 24 hours constant monitoring without disturbing day to day activities. The WBAN enables the medical applications to be developed using electronic devices and sensors...

Wireless Body Area Network(WBAN) is an emerging trend in ubiquitous society and very prolific for Human being, which consists of low power wireless biosensors, seamlessly placed on or implanted in human body in order to provide an adaptable and smart healthcare system. Positioning of a WBAN user in his/her critical condition is an important issue in WBAN. For this purpose we have canvassed diff...

A distinctive and natural trust region for protected data transportations in wireless healthcare systems such as body area networks is provided by the blood flow system in a humanoid body. Regrettably, biometric signal confirmation by biological characteristics in wireless healthcare has not been broadly studied. A data authentication method using electrocardiography (ECG) signal shapes for red...

Wireless body-area networks (WBANs) have revolutionized the way mobile and wearable computers communicate with their users and I/O devices. We investigate an energy-efficient computing model, called wireless device driver, for low-duty peripherals, sensors and other I/O devices employed in a WBAN to communicate with a more powerful central device. We present an extensive comparative study of tw...