Future Communication systems will be driven by the concept that how every one can be connected from any where at any time. An essential part of this concept is Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) approach by which services are constantly available and the best use of this WBAN is health monitoring. Indeed, if medical monitoring can be performed wirelessly, the patient is no longer constrained in ...

Security in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) is of major concern as the miniature personal health-care devices need to protect the sensitive health information transmitted in wireless medium. It is essential for these devices to generate the shared secret key used for data encryption periodically. Recent studies have exploited wireless channel characteristics, e.g., received signal strength i...

The next generation of wireless systems is sprouting towards personal area networks. Among them, a very promising application is the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) used for health monitoring and ubiquitous computing. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) communication is one of the potential transmission techniques for wireless networks. To optimize receiver structures and antennas for UWB-WBANs with respect...

Wireless body area network (WBAN) applications have broad utility in monitoring patient health and transmitting the data wirelessly. WBAN can greatly benefit from wearable antennas. Wearable antennas provide comfort continuity of patient. Therefore, they must be comfortable, flexible, operate without excessive degradation near body. Most use a truncated ground, which increases specific absorpti...

The recently released IEEE 802.15.6 standard specifies several physical (PHY) layers and medium access control (MAC) layer protocols for variety of medical non-medical applications Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). WBAN has obligatory requirements constrains viz. high reliability, strict delay deadlines low power consumption. MAC scheme is not able to fulfil the all WBAN. To address this issu...

Nowadays, technological advances provide people with more facilities and luxuries in life. Medicine is no exception; for example, different wireless sensors can be used to monitor patients’ state of health. These are the so-called Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN), improve efficiency doctor-patient activities at any time, body area, anywhere. However, health data contains sensitive information...

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are formed by using tiny health monitoring sensors on the human body in order to collect and communicate the human personal data. WBANs serve as a solution to facilitate the tasks performed in the medical sector, and minimize the chances of errors during the process of medical diagnosis. Due to the unreliable wireless media, the communication in a WBAN is exp...

Data aggregation plays an important role to improve the transmission efficiency in wireless body area networks (WBANs); however, it inherently induces additional aggregation delay. Therefore, the effect of packet aggregation on WBAN applications, which are vulnerable to delay, must be analyzed rigorously. In this paper, we analyze the packet aggregation delay for multisource sensor data with an...

With recent advances in wireless communication and low-power miniaturized biomedical sensor and semiconductor technologies, wireless body area networks (WBAN) has become an integral part of the disaster aid system. Wearable vital sign sensors can track patients’status and location, thus enhancing disaster rescue efficiency. In the past few years, most of the literatures in the area of disaster ...

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) provide efficient communication solutions to the ubiquitous healthcare systems. Health monitoring, telemedicine, military, interactive entertainment, and portable audio/video systems are some of the applications where WBANs can be used. The miniaturized sensors together with advance micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology create a WBAN that continu...