The increasing penetration of wearable and implantable devices necessitates energy-
efficient and robust ways of connecting them to each other and to the cloud. However, the …

Recent advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) are reforming the health care industry by
providing higher communication efficiency, lower costs, and higher mobility. Among the …

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have characteristic properties that should be
considered for designing a proper network architecture. Movement of on-body sensors, low …

Radio links in wireless body area networks (WBANs) suffer from both short-term and long-
term variations due to the dynamic network topology and frequent blockage caused by body …

Networks play an important role in the day-to-day life of every individual. Networks are
involved in the transmission of necessary information between the sender and receiver in …

Internet enabled body area networks (BANs) will form a core part of future remote health
monitoring and ambient assisted living technology. In BAN applications, due to the dynamic …

Body sensor networks (BSNs) are emerging cyber–physical systems that promise to improve
quality of life through improved healthcare, augmented sensing and actuation for the …

Radio links in wireless body area networks (WBANs) are highly subject to short and long-
term attenuation due to the unstable network topology and frequent body blockage. This …

The main research challenges on developing Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) are
related to the quality of the communication link and energy consumption. This article …

This article explores on-body energy management mechanisms in the context of emerging
wireless body area networks. In severely resource-constrained systems such as WBANs …