In Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs), it is crucial to ensure reliable and timely delivery of gathered data, despite their intrinsic challenges related to limited resources at the sensor level. In fact, in the medical context, most real-time ...

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are critical in medical emergency services within the Internet of Things (IoT). Ensuring efficient channel utilization while avoiding collisions and optimizing route allocation is a significant research focus in ...

Recently, Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has revolutionized e-health-care. WBAN boosts monitoring vital signs utilizing tiny wireless sensors implanted in or around the human body. In February 2012, the IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN standard ...

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• Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) supports monitoring human-body vital signs.
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To prevent the critical damage to human tissue by the high temperature on an implanted or wearable node, various temperature-aware routing protocols have been proposed in wireless body area networks (WBAN). However, routing-based ...

IEEE 802.15.6 standard has been designed for wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) that consist of several sensors and a coordinator node in, on or around the human body. In WBSNs, the body sensors continuously send their data to the coordinator ...

• Wireless Body Area Networks offer promising applications to the healthcare field.

In the era of communication technologies, wireless healthcare networks enable innovative applications to enhance the quality of patients’ lives, provide useful monitoring tools for caregivers, and allows timely intervention. However, ...

Wireless Body Area Networks(WBANs) is one of the most attractive communication technologies in recent years. Herein, network lifetime acts as a key factor in various WBANs applications. In this paper, an adaptive energy-aware relay mechanism is ...

Recent development and advancement of information and communication technologies facilitate people in different dimensions of life. Most importantly, in the healthcare industry, this has become more and more involved with the ...

• IEEE 802.15.6 based UWC architecture is used firstly in the literature and it is simulated with Riverbed Modeler simulation software.

Nowadays, there are many underground working areas, such as mines and tunnels, which are considered with the scope of the hazardous working area. The use of wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies to ensure the safety of the workers ...

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) concept is one of the most promising technologies for healthcare applications. In WBANs, sensor nodes are capable of sensing, gathering the human body signs and sending them to the HUB; the ...

Reprogramming is a mechanism for software upgrade in the deployed devices. It is used to repair bugs in the running of the device or change the software function of the device according to the new requirements. Because the wireless body area network (...

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a recent technology for improving the quality of life. Due to the unique requirements and specific characteristics of WBAN, monitoring the health conditions of remote patients is a critical and ...

• A virtual queue based priority scheduling mechanism is proposed for WBAN.
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In recent days, intelligent biomedical sensors and wearable devices are changing the healthcare industry by providing various heterogeneous vital signs of patients to the hospitals, caregivers, and clinicals. This collective form of monitoring sensor ...

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are seen as the enabling technology for developing new generations of medical applications, such as remote health monitoring. As such it is expected that WBANs will predominantly transport mission-critical and delay ...

The proposed method for real-time streaming of wireless body area networks.

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• We employs fluid twin token bucket model to compute the delay constraints of real-time streams so as to ensure their data rate and end-to-end delay.

Wireless body area networks (WBAN) are an emerging form of technology which provides a base for various implantable and wearable sensors. This paper presents a quality-of-service (QoS) resource allocation method to share limited ...

eHealth applications have become essential in everyday life healthcare especially for elderly and sick individuals. To provide efficiency to such applications, many standards emerged for WBANs. However, WBANs standards showed their ...

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is a remarkable, reliable and the most beneficial trend in the e-health monitoring system. WBANs are operated using low power wireless technology to link minute sensors with invasive or non-invasive technology for ...

The miniaturization of wireless sensors and medical devices have empowered the extension of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and E-Health care systems. However, in WBANs, wireless communications are exposed to a variety of passive and active security ...

Wireless body area networks (WBAN) is a wireless network of sensors placed in and around the human body for monitoring the patient conditions remotely. The goal of WBAN networks is to report the patient condition to the monitoring system with maximum ...

The IEEE 802.15.6 was established in Feb 2012 due to emergency of wireless body area networks (WBANs). In order to improve the performance of WBANs, the physical (PHY) layer, medium access control (MAC) layer and network layer have been discussed in a ...