Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are an exciting new networking technology developed in the recent years with advancements in wireless communication, integrated circuits and Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMs). They consist of a number of sensor nodes that are placed in or around the human body. However, their practical deployment requires addressing numerous challenges. WBANs face many s...

The increasing interest in the usage of wireless body area networks (WBAN) in healthcare and other critical applications underscores the importance of secure communication among the body sensor devices. Associating an unknown device with an existing network without prior knowledge of a secret key poses a major challenge. Existing authentication schemes in WBAN are typically based on received si...

The rapid advances in sensors and ultra-low power wireless communication has enabled a new generation of wireless sensor networks: Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). To the best of our knowledge the current paper is the first to address broadcast in WBAN. We first analyze several broadcast strategies inspired from the area of Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN). The proposed strategies are evaluated...

A P-shaped monopole antenna (PSMA) attached with a glass substrate is proposed for wireless body area networks (WBAN) applications. The study investigates the performance of PSMA above reflection plane substrates with di erent material of glass and a perfect electric conductor (PEC). The PSMA prototype is fabricated on the FR4 substrateto be operated between 3.1 to 5.1 GHz frequency band. It is...

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) plays an important role in e-health, sports training, and entertainment to monitor human bodies wirelessly remotely. One critical challenge for WBAN is guarantee the quality of user experience improve network performance within such a resource-constrained dynamic network. In proposed paper, we investigate cooperative radio frequency energy harvesting-based WBAN...

The research involving in providing healthcare services to remote patients have led the exploration of new solutions provide effective Quality Service (QoS) and fault tolerant network for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). With growing number diseases percentage elderly people, need medicated assisted life disabled or old age population has increased a lot. To deal with these conditions, there ...

Current advances in wireless communication, microelectronics, semiconductor technologies, and intelligent sensors have contributed to the development of unobtrusive WBANs. These networks provide long term health monitoring of patients without any constraint in their normal activities. Traditional MAC protocols do not accommodate the assorted WBAN traffic requirements in a power efficient manner...

A Wideband Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna (RDRA) is presented in this manuscript. The proposed RDRA designed for wideband body area network (WBAN) applications due to its compact size and characteristics. antenna can be effectively integrated with modern medical devices transmitting biological signals. WBAN attract variety of monitoring human health the domains such as sports, enterta...

In [1], authors show that the implant’s effective radiated power (ERP) and receive signal strength indication (RSSI) are affected by the depth inside a human body. Neither the polarisation of the implant nor the effect(s) of the implant’s distance (from the base station) and the power settings (at the base station) on the RSSI is considered. With regards to the MAC part, the authors of [1] disc...