Data science or “data-driven research” is a research approach that uses real-life data to gain
insight about the behavior of systems. It enables the analysis of small, simple as well as …

IEEE 802.15. 6 is a wireless body area network (WBAN) standard proposed to facilitate the
exponentially growing interest in the field of health monitoring. This standard is flexible and …

The evolution of mobile devices has triggered the appearance of intelligent personal
assistants (IPAs). IPAs are software agents used to support users to fulfill several daily …

Pervasive healthcare services have undergone a great evolution in recent years. The
technological development of communication networks, including the Internet, sensor …

With the rapid increase in number of sensing devices for healthcare, researchers are getting
growing interest due to wide application support and new challenging scenarios. Internet of …

In the harsh environmental conditions of cyber-physical systems (CPSs), the consensus
problem seems to be one of the central topics that affect the performance of consensus …

In this paper, we introduce a cooperative medium access control (MAC) protocol, named
cooperative energy harvesting (CEH)-MAC, that adapts its operation to the energy …

As we stand on the cusp of an evolution in effective and confidential smart healthcare
systems, the disciplines of Psychology and Neuroscience remain a barrier. The obstacle of …

The emergence of Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) constitutes a new and fast growing trend
for the development of daily routine applications. However, in the case of heterogeneous …

In this study, we analyse incremental cooperative communication for wireless body area
networks (WBANs) with different numbers of relays. Energy efficiency (EE) and the packet …