Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are an emerging technology for realizing efficient
healthcare and remote medicine for the aging society of the future. In order to improve the …

Reliability is one of the most important communication metrics in wireless body area
networks especially for medical applications. However, traditional one-hop transmission …

To support long-term pervasive healthcare services, communications in Wireless Body Area
Networks (WBANs) need to be both reliable and energy-efficient. As a cooperative …

In this paper, we propose a cross-layer design to make ambulatory health monitoring via
body area networks (BAN) more reliable and robust. The proposed design builds on our …

In this paper, an energy-efficient cooperative relay selection scheme is investigated for ultra-
wideband (UWB) based wireless body area networks (WBANs). With a realistic nonlinear …

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are made up of tiny physiological sensors implanted
in/on the human body that communicate with a coordinator. The specific characteristics of …

Abstract Nowadays, applications of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) have increased
considerably. Mobility Management in WBAN for patient monitoring can be used which …

In view of the privacy protection and shadow effect of wireless body area network (WBAN),
we propose a secure and reliable data transmission scheme. In the first place, on the basis …

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) plays an important role in real-time data gathering by
on-body vital sensors for athletes in a sports training scenario. However, the 2.4 G Hz …

To improve the outage performance of a wireless body area network (BAN), exploitation of
the diversity in the channel obtained by letting different nodes cooperate and relay signals …