A comprehensive survey of medium access control protocols for wireless body area networks

A Bouani, YB Maissa, R Saadane… - Wireless …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Application of reinforcement learning to medium access control for wireless sensor networks

Y Chu, S Kosunalp, PD Mitchell, D Grace… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel approach to medium access control for single-hop wireless
sensor networks. The ALOHA-Q protocol applies Q-Learning to frame based ALOHA as an …

Distance aware relaying energy-efficient: Dare to monitor patients in multi-hop body area sensor networks

A Tauqir, N Javaid, S Akram, A Rao… - … on Broadband and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, interests in the applications of Wireless Body Area Sensor Network
(WBASN) is noticeably developed. WBASN is playing a significant role to get the real time …

LAEEBA: Link aware and energy efficient scheme for body area networks

S Ahmed, N Javaid, M Akbar, A Iqbal… - 2014 IEEE 28th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless sensor networks and, particularly wireless body area networks (WBANs) are the
key building blocks of upcoming generation networks. Modern health care system is one of …

Medium access control protocols for wireless body area networks: A survey

R Sruthi - Procedia Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) consist of a number of miniaturized
wearable or implanted sensor nodes that are employed to monitor vital parameters of a …

Adaptive medium access control protocol for wireless body area networks

N Javaid, A Ahmad, A Rahim, ZA Khan… - International …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are widely used for applications such as modern
health-care systems, where wireless sensors (nodes) monitor the parameter (s) of interest …

Traffic priority based channel assignment technique for critical data transmission in wireless body area network

M Ambigavathi, D Sridharan - Journal of medical systems, 2018 - Springer
In recent days, intelligent biomedical sensors and wearable devices are changing the
healthcare industry by providing various heterogeneous vital signs of patients to the …

An energy-efficient multiconstrained QoS aware MAC protocol for body sensor networks

S Pandit, K Sarker, MA Razzaque… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2015 - Springer
One of the most challenging jobs in designing a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for
Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) is to achieve QoS requirements for heterogeneous traffics …

Human activity recognition based on the fading characteristics of the on-body channel

W Dib, K Ghanem, A Ababou… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several solutions using wearable devices for continuous Human Activity Recognition (HAR)
have been proposed up to now, and HAR sensor-based methods are by far the most …

Role of 5G Networks in Healthcare Management System

D Prasad, V Kudva, A Singh, RB Hegde… - Critical Reviews™ in …, 2023 - dl.begellhouse.com
The present-day healthcare system operates on a 4G network, where the data rate needed
for many IoT devices is impossible. Also, the latency involved in the network does not …