In this paper, an IEEE 802.15.6 wireless body area networks (WBAN) medium access control protocol is developed to support a wireless USB (WUSB) application as a protocol adaptation layer (PAL). Further, we propose a Power Efficient Mechanism (PEM) technique based on the WUSB over WBAN protocol. The proposed time synchronization technique reduces power consumption. It is executed using the WUSB ...

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a special purpose personal area network with health-care and other value-added applications. Recently, patient monitoring applications using WBAN have received significant attention. Patient monitoring applications are intended to report any sign of emergency in the monitored patient to the corresponding health personal so that necessary actions can be taken...

A Wireless USB cluster tree topology is formed to configure multiple Wearable Computer Networks (WCNs). Basically, a single WCN operates based on WUSB over WBAN protocol. And the host in each WCN takes a role of DRD-host or DRD-device. The WUSB/WBAN flows in a WCN are manipulated in a time period during a WBAN superframe. On the other hand, the DRD flows between WCNs are manipulated in a time p...

In recent years, there is enormous growth of smart systems that have been developed for range of applications. This development is focused on Internet-ofThings (IoT), which will eventually, transform IoT into system of systems. Such smart systems are widely utilized in healthcare; however, the wide scope of such systems is also vulnerable to security and privacy issues. This paper proposes a se...

A WBAN Network is one of the most critical real time networks defined with certain restrictions and constraints. The criticalities of this network are because of the environmental contraints, device restrictions and architectural constraints. These criticalities also raise various issues related to network life, reliability and security. In this paper, an exploration to the WBAN layered model i...

Resumen. En los últimos años el uso de las redes de sensores enfocados al desarrollo de aplicaciones médicas se han incrementado especialmente para el monitoreo de signos vitales en pacientes, dando apertura al desarrollo de redes de área corporal (WBAN). Sin embargo, la información recolectada de las WBAN tiene diferentes requerimientos de comunicación (datos heterogéneos, fiabilidad de entreg...

UWB is a technology that has several advantages when considered for a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). A WBAN is a network with its communications devices in very close proximity to the human body. In medical applications these devices are connected to sensors that can monitor vital signs such as ECG, temperature, and mobility. A WBAN allows for the remote monitoring of a patient’s health min...

According to as urge in demand of wireless body area network (WBAN), there are many researches on WBAN based on standard IEEE 802.15.6. These researches focused on physical layer, media access control (MAC) layer and network layer based on IEEE 802.15.6. Since network topology in the standard is defined as one hop star plus one, the previous research focused on one hop star topology and a multi...

Wearable wireless body area network (WBAN) has attracted considerable attention as a means to collect vital data in sports training and urgent life-critical scenarios, which requires high reliability in links from sensor nodes to a central coordinator. Herein, cooperative relaying, which means retransmission not by sensor nodes themselves but through their cooperators, works effectively, since ...

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is a promising candidate for future health monitoring system. Nevertheless, the path to mature solutions is still facing a lot of challenges that need to be overcome. Energy efficient scheduling is one of these challenges given the scarcity of available energy of biosensors and the lack of portability. Therefore, researchers from academia, industry and health s...