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Wireless Body Area Network: An Overview and Various Applications

Journal of Computer and Communications

Over the past years a booming interest is comprehended in the field of wireless communication for the development of a monitoring system to observe human vital organs activities remotely. Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is such network that provides a continuous monitoring over or inside human body for a long period and can support transmission of real time traffic such as data, voice, video to observe the status of vital organs functionalities. In this paper an overview of WBAN technology and its requirements has been narrated. The aim of this paper was to offer a suitable and appropriate wireless technology for deploying WBAN. Several suitable short range wireless communication technologies that can be adopted in WBAN have also been discussed. Finally numerous applications in the field of medical and non-medical sectors using WBAN technology have been outlined.

A Survey Overview: On Wireless Body Area Network and Its Various Applications

With the remarkable change of mobile radio communication over the past years in the wireless communication technologies, makes the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) services to be adopted by most of the people around the world. Wireless body area network is such a special purpose sensor network that was made for continues monitoring the health parameters in real time with the different wireless sensors by implanting internally or externally of a human body. This wireless sensed information from the vital organs of the human body may be in the form of data, voice; video signals are communicated wirelessly through WBAN. This survey article presents an overview on-the WBAN communication architecture, comparison of WBAN and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), WBAN operating protocols-those are intended for short range wireless communication, and its applications in the medical and non-medical field have been out lined.

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)

ACM Computing Surveys

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has been a key element in e-health to monitor bodies. This technology enables new applications under the umbrella of different domains, including the medical field, the entertainment and ambient intelligence areas. This survey paper places substantial emphasis on the concept and key features of the WBAN technology. First, the WBAN concept is introduced and a review of key applications facilitated by this networking technology is provided. The study then explores a wide variety of communication standards and methods deployed in this technology. Due to the sensitivity and criticality of the data carried and handled by WBAN, fault tolerance is a critical issue and widely discussed in this paper. Hence, this survey investigates thoroughly the reliability and fault tolerance paradigms suggested for WBANs. Open research and challenging issues pertaining to fault tolerance, coexistence and interference management and power consumption are also discussed al...

ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS PROTOCOLS IN WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS (WBAN

A Body Area Network is a system of computing devices located in close proximity to the human body which coordinates and cooperates for the benefit of the user. Body Area Networks have evolved out of sensor network technology and biomedical engineering. In this paper we discuss various aspects of Body Area Networks, introduction section deals with various concepts associated with computer networks and some supporting technologies of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). Section 2 deals with the various definitions of Body Area Networks (BANs) followed by the types of BAN in section 3 and system architecture in section 4. Section 5 gives the draft guidelines by IEEE 802.15.6 for a communications standard for BAN, the next two sections list out the applications and current research trends of BAN followed by the conclusion.

Wireless Body Area Network for Healthcare Applications

Advanced Methods for Complex Network Analysis

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is an emerging field of research which has been progressing rapidly in recent years. WBAN is a network utilized for continuous monitoring of physiological state of the subject, where the patient can perform his regular activities while his body parameters get measured continuously and are accessed by the physician remotely. This chapter provides a thorough survey of current WBAN technologies in the healthcare sector. Besides the recording of physiological parameters, discussions have been provided on remote data transmission to a server called Virtual Doctor Server (VDS). During this transmission, WBAN network uses various technologies namely Ultra Wide Band WBAN, Technology Enabled Medical Precision Observation 3.1 (TEMPO 3.1), J2ME and Bluetooth. Details of several existing WBAN related projects have been discussed along with their applications. The next section of the chapter deals with the use and design of medical sensors in WBAN. Performance comparison between WBAN and WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) has also been provided.

A comprehensive review of wireless body area network

Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2019

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 information and communication technology-based services. One of the most important services is monitoring of remote patients, that enables the healthcare providers to observe, diagnose and prescribe the patients without being physically present. The advantage of miniaturization of sensor technologies gives the flexibility of installing in, on or off the body of patients, which is capable of forwarding physiological data wirelessly to remote servers. Such technology is named as Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). In this paper, WBAN architecture, communication technologies for WBAN, challenges and different aspects of WBAN are illustrated. This paper also describes the architectural limitations of existing WBAN communication frameworks. blueFurthermore, implementation requirements are presented based on IEEE 802.15.6 standard. Finally, as a source of motivation towards future development of research incorporating Software Defined Networking (SDN), Energy Harvesting (EH) and Blockchain technology into WBAN are also provided.

Challenges in Wireless Body Area Network

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) refers to a short-range, wireless communications in the vicinity of, or inside a human body. WBAN is emerging solution to cater the needs of local and remote health care related facility. Medical and nonmedical applications have been revolutionarily under consideration for providing a healthy and gratify service to humanity. Being very critical in communication of the data from body, it faces many challenges, which are to be tackled for the safety of life and benefit of the user. There is variety of challenges faced by WBAN. WBAN is favorite playground for attackers due to its usability in various applications. This article provides systematic overview of challenges in WBAN in communication and security perspectives.

Survey on Wireless Body Area Network

Recent advancement of wearable computing and wearable sensor devices has empowered the development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). Wireless body area network is made up of remotely connected miniaturized sensors placed in, on or around the Human Body, which provides continuous monitoring of physiological signs to support medical, lifestyle and entertainment applications. First, we focus on some applications with special interest in patient monitoring. Then the open research issues and challenges are pointed out. Finally, an overview of MAC and network layer is given.

Survey on Wireless Body Area Network for Healthcare Applications

2016

This paper presents the survey/review on various aspects of WBAN technologies that are being used in healthcare applications. Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is the network of sensors worn on the body, used to describe a network of devices connected to wireless communication system. In particular, we have inspected monitoring and sensing, system architectures and applications of Wireless Body Area Network for healthcare system. We conclude by discussions on open research issues, their potential solutions and future trends useful for applications in healthcare system. WBAN opens up a whole new field of sensor networking and intelligent technology for healthcare applications but the problem lies in varying specifications and operating platforms.

Body Area Network and its Applications: A Survey

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a system which used to streamline low power gadgets and to work in or outside of human body to help assortment of therapeutic applications. WBAN contains at least one Body Sensor Units (BSU), one Body Control Unit (BCU), and long range remote gadgets. BAN also called as body sensor network (BSN) set up to make restorative and health applications more progressed. WBAN is confined not only to restorative applications but can be utilized in non-therapeutic applications, for example, sports applications and other. For medicinal applications it assumes a key part to help medicinal experts and patients for the checking of therapeutic circumstance through intelligent body sensor network (IBAN). There are numerous WBAN sensors that can measures diverse kind of physical parameters, for example, Electrocardiogram (ECG), Electromyography (EMG), body temperature and diabetes of human body. In this paper, there will be an exhaustive study on WBAN applications and the part of these applications used in real life. Through these uses of WBAN, sensors can foresee unpredictable conduct of body parameters and enable patients or sensor gadgets to ready medicinal masters before any severe condition.