It is expected that Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) will greatly improve the quality of our life because of its myriad applications for our human beings. However, one of the challenges is to design energy efficient communication protocols to support the reliable communication as well as to prolong the network lifetime. Cooperative communications have the advantage of spatial diversity to comb...

In recent years there is growing pressure on the medical sector to reduce costs while maintaining or even improving the quality of care. A potential solution to this problem is real time and/or remote patient monitoring by using mobile devices. To achieve this, medical sensors with wireless communication, computational and energy harvesting capabilities are networked on, or in, the human body f...

While many of the technologies envisaged for use in wireless healthcare systems are available today little is known about their interplay. The collected medical data in a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) must be transferred to a medical center for further processing and storage. Therefore, second wireless hop is needed before access to the wired network is achieved. The main focus of this rese...

Abstract This paper introduces a small-sized, low profile, planar and flexible ultra-wide band (UWB) antenna using Jeans, textile material as the substrate. A novel shape of hexagonal slot in rectangular step patch with partial ground plane is developed bandwidth 12 GHz proposed. It primary approach natural substrate for UWB which operated wide range bandwidth. The designed short applications i...

Wireless body area networks (WBAN) are expected to be a breakthrough technology in healthcare areas such as hospital and home care, telemedicine, and physical rehabilitation. Because the human body has a complex shape consisting of different tissues it is expected that the nature of the propagation of electromagnetic signals in the case of WBAN to be very different than the one found in other e...

Healthcare solutions using anytime, and anywhere remote healthcare surveillance devices, have become a major challenge. The patients with chronic diseases who need only therapeutic supervision are not advised to occupy a hospital bed. Using Wearable Wireless Body/Personal Area Network (WWBAN), intelligent monitoring of heart can supply information about medical conditions. Electrocardiogram (EC...

In this paper, communication between Client and Application provider should be authentic; so two protocols are used for authentication which is trivial and coherent performed through Network manager (NM). The authentication success between WBAN client and Application provider (AP) is used to activate users of WBAN in distant to access services such as healthcare, medical applications, military ...

Security and privacy issues in medical wireless body area networks (WBANs) constitute a major unsolved concern because of the challenges posed by the scarcity of resources in WBAN devices and the usability restrictions imposed by the healthcare domain. In this paper, we describe a WBAN architecture based on the well-known publish-subscribe paradigm. We present two protocols for publishing data ...

Recently, the wearable internet of things (WIoT) has brought a new dimension connectivity to wireless body area networks (WBANs). For instance, WIoT provides valuable functions, such as collecting, analyzing, and transmitting data for real-time health monitoring medical services. However, designing clustering routing protocol is challenging because attributes are subject high interference in de...