The novel coronavirus (COVID-19), declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a
global pandemic, has brought with it changes to the general way of life. Major sectors of the …

Long-Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) is a fast-growing communication system for
Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) in the Internet of Things (IoTs) deployments …

Interest and need for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have significantly increased
recently. WBAN consists of miniaturized sensors designed to collect and transmit data …

Future smart healthcare systems—often referred to as Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)–will
combine a plethora of wireless devices and applications that use wireless communication …

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are an emerging technology expected to
revolutionize mobile healthcare via the real-time monitoring and analysis of medical data …

The popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) has resulted in increased deployments of Low
Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies for both commercial and private services due to their …

The introduction of sensor technology in our daily lives has brought comfort, convenience,
and improved health over the past few decades. Technological advances further expanded …

LoRa technology is extensively utilized in the Internet of Things world. It allows a
transmission of a low volume of data through small wireless devices. The principle of LoRa …

Energy efficiency is an important quality-of-service requirement that needs to be considered
when designing an efficient MAC protocol for a WBAN system due to the limited power …

This study proposes a hybrid MAC protocol that can efficiently and effectively optimize the
communication channel access of a WBAN multi-class system. The proposed protocol …