Wireless sensor networks have been widely used in many important fields. Medium Access
Control (MAC) protocols have a significant effect on the function and performance of sensor …

Wireless systems that form a body-area network must be made small and low power without
sacrificing performance. To achieve high-throughput communication in low-cost wireless …

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have emerged as a promising technology for health
monitoring due to their high utility and important role in improving human health. WBANs …

The need for a reduction in healthcare cost has escalated over the past decade. Therefore,
preventive medicine through remote health monitoring and Body Area Networks has gained …

In the newly emerging body area networks (BANs), substantial demands come from both
medical applications and consumer electronics (CE) applications. Due to the heterogeneous …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have appealed to researchers due to their wide range of
application areas such as target detection and tracking, environment monitoring, and tactical …

Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) consist of miniature sensors deployed on or implanted into
the human body for health monitoring. Conserving the energy of these sensors, while …

This paper focuses on the slot allocation scheme of MAC protocol to achieve energy-
efficiency for the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). The WBAN is adopted to realize the …

Abstract The Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), which comprises of a set of tiny,
invasive/non-invasive, light-weight, high-energy-efficient biosensors that monitor human …

Recently, the IEEE 802.15. 6 Task Group introduced a new wireless communication
standard that provides a suitable framework specifically to support the requirements of …