Performance issues in wireless body area networks for the healthcare application: a survey and future prospects

Q Liu, KG Mkongwa, C Zhang - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
This study presents a survey of the current issues, application areas, findings, and
performance challenges in wireless body area networks (WBAN). The survey discusses …

A bonded channel in cognitive wireless body area network based on IEEE 802.15. 6 and internet of things

F Niaz, M Khalid, Z Ullah, N Aslam, M Raza… - Computer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite the recent developments in communication technologies for wireless body area
networks (WBAN), the reliability of packet transmission, especially for emergency and critical …

Duty cycle optimization using game theory two master nodes cooperative protocol in wban

DA Hammood, HA Rahim, A Alkhayyat… - Wireless Personal …, 2022 - Springer
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are communication networks of sensors (and/or
actuators), which can be placed on, inside, or around the body and represent a new …

Sensors energy optimization for renewable energy-based WBANS on sporadic elder movements

AS Rajawat, SB Goyal, P Bedi, C Verma, CO Safirescu… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The world is advancing to a new era where a new concept is emerging that deals with
“wirelessness”. As we know, renewable energy is the future, and this research studied the …

Reward function evaluation in a reinforcement learning approach for energy management

Y Rioual, Y Le Moullec, J Laurent… - 2018 16th biennial …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past decade, the energy needs in WBANs have increased due to more information to
be processed, more data to be transmitted and longer operational periods. On the other …

QoS based telemedicine technologies for rural healthcare emergencies

A Mukhopadhyay - 2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Telemedicine systems are becoming prevalent in today's healthcare scenarios, especially in
India where a large portion of the population resides in remote and rural regions where …

Reliable packet transmission in WBAN with dynamic and optimized QoS using multi-objective lion cooperative hunt optimizer

M Kathuria, S Gambhir - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021 - Springer
Recent studies demonstrate that handling a patient's health-related data needs dynamic
Quality of Service (QoS) to cope up with significant changes in the functioning of a Patient …

Enabling co-existence of cognitive sensor nodes with energy harvesting in body area networks

AK Shukla, PK Upadhyay, A Srivastava… - IEEE Sensors …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate a spectral and energy-efficient wireless body area network
(WBAN) for smart healthcare applications. Herein, we primarily focus on improving the …

HealthStack: providing an IoT middleware for malleable QoS service stacking for hospital 4.0 operating rooms

VF Rodrigues, RR Righi, CA Costa… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Healthcare 4.0 is a new concept that originates from the evolution of hospitals due to
technological advances in medical activities. Nowadays, more and more doctors and …

Cooperative channel assignment for VANETs based on multiagent reinforcement learning

Y Wang, K Zheng, D Tian, X Duan, J Zhou - Frontiers of Information …, 2020 - Springer
Dynamic channel assignment (DCA) plays a key role in extending vehicular ad-hoc network
capacity and mitigating congestion. However, channel assignment under vehicular direct …