Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) support a variety of real-time health monitoring and consumer electronics applications. The latest international standard for WBAN is the IEEE 802.15.6. The security association in this standard includes four elliptic curve-based key agreement protocols that are used for generating a master key. In this paper, we challenge the security of the IEEE 802.15.6 sta...

Wireless sensor technology plays an important role in the military, medical, and commercial fields nowadays. Body Area Network (WBAN) is a special application of wireless network human health monitoring, through which patients can know their physical condition real time respond to emergencies on time. Data reliability, guaranteed by trust nodes WBAN, prerequisite for effective treatment patient...

This paper investigates the performance of cooperative receive diversity, for the wireless body area network (WBAN) radio channel, compliant with the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard, in the case of monitoring a sleeping person. Extensive WBAN measurements near the 2.4 GHz ISM band were used. Up to 7 dB and 20% improvement for two-hop communications with the use of relays are empirically demonstrated wit...

A wireless body area network (WBAN) is constructed in the vicinity of a human body and provides various services for both medical and non-medical services. In order to provide monitoring services for medical devices, routing algorithms for wireless sensor networks (WSN) have been considered for WBANs. However, unlike WSNs, which consist of homogeneous devices, WBANs are organized with heterogen...

The wireless universal serial bus (WUSB) connects personal computers (PCs) to their peripherals and the consumer-electronics (CE) in people’s living home networks. A wireless body area network (WBAN) allows the integration of intelligent, miniaturized, low-power sensor nodes that monitor body functions and the surrounding environment. In this paper, we propose a method for multi-hop network ext...

Secure protocol is a vital guarantee in all kinds of communication network environment. Designing on authenticated key exchange protocols is a hotspot in the field of information security at present, and the related theories have been increasingly mature. However, there is still scarcely any appropriate security protocol to guarantee the communication security of wireless body area networks (WB...

With recent advances in wireless sensor networks and embedded computing technologies, miniaturized pervasive health monitoring devices have become practically feasible. In addition to providing continuous monitoring and analysis of physiological parameters, the recently proposed Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) incorporates context aware sensing for increased sensitivity and specificity. A nu...

Abstract—Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a short-range wireless communication around human body for various applications such as wearable devices, entertainment, military, and especially medical devices. WBAN attracts the attention of continuous health monitoring system including diagnostic procedure, early detection of abnormal conditions, and prevention of emergency situations. Compared ...

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a promising technology that improves life quality and enhances medical healthcare services. The activities communications of sensors lead to temperature rise, which can be fatal for the human body. heating problem addressed by thermal-aware strategy, has great importance. This paper reviews sixteen routing protocols proposed WBAN; it presents in WBAN its ass...