Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) is the recent trend for localized and personalized medical services. For that purpose, several tele-medicine architectures and WBAN frameworks for patient monitoring have been proposed. This paper presents a new medical protocol MESETP (Medical Services Transport Protocol), that underlies data delivery for both real-time and non real-time medical services. Fur...

Recent technological advances in wireless communications, mobile computation, and sensor technologies have enabled the development of low-cost, miniature, lightweight, intelligent wireless sensor devices or “motes”. A collection of these devices can be placed strategically on the key positions of the human body and connected by means of a wireless network to form a Wireless Body Area Network (W...

Recent advances in electronics and integrated circuits have fostered the development of small and intelligent medical sensors and actuators that are wearable or implementable inside the human body. The main function of these devices is to collect patient’s physiological parameters and forward them to the medical center in an efficient and reliable way. Therefore, routing is a non-trivial task i...

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a recent technologically advanced sub-category of Sensor Networks (WSN) which consists many bio-sensors, attached in and around human body, for monitoring the health-related issues from remote places. The WBAN faces various challenges during real time deployment. Energy conservation has always been most crucial issue sensor nodes, are powered by limited capa...

Wireless Body area network (WBAN) has become an of special interest for the researchers due to its vast applications in medical field. The major components WBAN are sensors and gateway where responsible collecting transmitting physical biological status human body. is linking with any external server valuable output. As it been always challenging enhance performance, energy efficiency, higher t...

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) designed for medical, sports, and entertainment applications, have drawn the attention of academia and industry alike. A WBAN is a special purpose network, designed to operate autonomously to connect various medical sensors and appliances, located inside and/or outside of a human body. This network enables physicians to remotely monitor vital signs of patient...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the server utilization and delay tolerance of a patient monitoring wireless body area network (WBAN) in hospital premises. The WBAN considered in this paper uses three tier heterogeneous networking method for communication and the vital data packets are prioritized as normal and emergency packets. In network, first tier consists of ZigBee nodes, second ...

To collect important health information, WBAN applications typically sense data at a high frequency. However, limited by the quality of wireless link, the uploading of sensed data has an upper frequency. To reduce upload frequency, most of the existing WBAN data collection approaches collect data with a tolerable error. These approaches can guarantee precision of the collected data, but they ar...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technologies have been anticipated for use in wireless body area networks (WBAN) because of their low power consumption and anti-multipath capabilities. This chapter presents the UWB (3.1–10.6 GHz) propagation loss in WBAN scenarios between on-body antennas in three different surrounding environments. The measurements were performed in a 3-m radio anechoic chamber, a classr...

When a Body Sensor Network (BSN) that is linked to the backbone via a wireless network interface roams from one coverage zone to another then in between wirelessbody-area-networks (WBAN) interference created, which can cause serious throughput degradation and energy waste. When a wireless body area network become mobile then problem arises of inter process interference A necessity appears for e...