A survey on wireless body area networks: Technologies and design challenges

R Cavallari, F Martelli, R Rosini… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interest in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) has increased significantly in recent years
thanks to the advances in microelectronics and wireless communications. Owing to the very …

Towards energy efficiency in the internet of wearable things: A systematic review

WB Qaim, A Ometov, A Molinaro, I Lener… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Personal mobile devices such as smartwatches, smart jewelry, and smart clothes have
launched a new trend in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, namely the Internet of Wearable …

An energy efficient and reliable routing scheme to enhance the stability period in wireless body area networks

F Ullah, MZ Khan, M Faisal, HU Rehman… - Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a wireless network of wearable sensing
and computing devices connected through a wireless communication channel, thereby …

A review on telemedicine-based WBAN framework for patient monitoring

C Chakraborty, B Gupta, SK Ghosh - Telemedicine and e-Health, 2013 - liebertpub.com
Objective: In this article, we describe the important aspects like major characteristics,
research issues, and challenges with body area sensor networks in telemedicine systems …

[PDF][PDF] RE-ATTEMPT: a new energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless body area sensor networks

A Ahmad, N Javaid, U Qasim, M Ishfaq… - International …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Modern health care system is one of the most popular Wireless Body Area Sensor Network
(WBASN) applications and a hot area of research subject to present work. In this paper, we …

Wearable body sensor networks: state-of-the-art and research directions

R Gravina, G Fortino - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The term Body Sensor Network (BSN) was introduced less than twenty years ago. Since
then, tremendous technical development and social changes attracted researchers from …

QoS-based routing in Wireless Body Area Networks: A survey and taxonomy

N Yessad, M Omar, A Tari, A Bouabdallah - Computing, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) constitutes a set of sensor nodes responsible
for monitoring human physiological activities and actions. The increasing demand for real …

A priority based cross layer routing protocol for healthcare applications

HB Elhadj, J Elias, L Chaari, L Kamoun - Ad Hoc Networks, 2016 - Elsevier
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) represent one of the most promising approaches for
improving the quality of life, allowing remote patient monitoring and other healthcare …

[HTML][HTML] An efficient next hop selection algorithm for multi-hop body area networks

V Ayatollahitafti, MA Ngadi, J Mohamad Sharif… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Body Area Networks (BANs) consist of various sensors which gather patient's vital signs and
deliver them to doctors. One of the most significant challenges faced, is the design of an …

[HTML][HTML] Energy efficiency and reliability considerations in wireless body area networks: A survey

F Ullah, MZ Khan, G Mehmood, MS Qureshi… - … Methods in Medicine, 2022 - hindawi.com
In this paper, we have reviewed and presented a critical overview of “energy-efficient and
reliable routing solutions” in the field of wireless body area networks (WBANs). In addition …