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Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an attractive choice for a variety of applications as no wired infrastructure is needed. Other wireless networks are not as energy constrained as WSNs, because they may be plugged into the mains supply or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-12 Eleazar Chukwuka , Kamran Arshad

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have gained a lot of research attention in recent years since they offer tremendous benefits for remote health monitoring and continuous, real-time patient care. However, as with any wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Raghav V. Sampangi , Saurabh Dey , Shalini R. Urs , Srinivas Sampalli

Wireless sensors networks performance are strictly related to the medium access mechanism. An effective one, require non-conventional paradigms for protocol design due to several constraints. An adequate equilibrium between communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Lamia Chaari , Lotfi Kamoun

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) enable continuous monitoring of physiological signals for applications ranging from chronic disease management to emergency response. Recent advances in 6G communications, post-quantum cryptography, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Mohammad Jalili Torkamani , Negin Mahmoudi , Kiana Kiashemshaki

A button sensor antenna for wireless medical body area networks (WMBAN) is presented, which works through the IEEE 802.11b/g/n standard. Due to strong interaction between the sensor antenna and the body, an innovative robust system is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Shahid M Ali , Cheab Sovuthy , Sima Noghanian , Qammer H. Abbasi , Tatjana Asenova , Peter Derleth , Alex Casson , Tughrul Arslan , Amir Hussain

The recently released IEEE 802.15.6 standard specifies several physical (PHY) layers and medium access control (MAC) layer protocols for variety of medical and non-medical applications of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). The medical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Md. Abubakar Siddik , Most. Anju Ara Hasi , Jakia Akter Nitu , Sumonto Sarker , Nasrin Sultana , Emarn Ali

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) open an interdisciplinary area within Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) research, with a tremendous impact in healthcare area where sensors are used to monitor, collect and transmit biological parameters of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Wafa Badreddine , Maria Potop-Butucaru

Distributed medium access control (MAC) protocols are essential for the proliferation of low cost, decentralized wireless local area networks (WLANs). Most MAC protocols are designed with the presumption that nodes comply with prescribed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Khoa Tran Phan , Jaeok Park , Mihaela van der Schaar

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have gained significant attention due to their applications in healthcare monitoring, sports, military communication, and remote patient care. These networks consist of wearable or implanted sensors that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Abdollah Rahimi , Mehdi Jafari Shahbazzadeh , Amid Khatibi

In this work, we propose a reliable, power efficient and high throughput routing protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). We use multi-hop topology to achieve minimum energy consumption and longer network lifetime. We propose a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Q. Nadeem , N. Javaid , S. N. Mohammad , M. Y. Khan , S. Sarfraz , M. Gull

The increasing penetration of wearable and implantable devices necessitates energy-efficient and robust ways of connecting them to each other and to the cloud. However, the wireless channel around the human body poses unique challenges such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Ali Moin , Arno Thielens , Alvaro Araujo , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Jan M. Rabaey

To remotely monitor the physiological status of the human body, long range (LoRa) communication has been considered as an eminently suitable candidate for wireless body area networks (WBANs). Typically, a Rayleigh-lognormal fading channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Minling Zhang , Guofa Cai , Zhiping Xu , Jiguang He , Markku Juntti

The enabling of wireless body area networks (WBANs) coexistence by radio interference mitigation is very important due to a rapid growth in potential users, and a lack of a central coordinator among WBANs that are closely located. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-31 Yizhou Yang , David Smith

-Recent advances in microelectronics have enabled the realization of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). However , the massive growth in wireless devices and the push for interconnecting these devices to form an Internet of Things (IoT)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Mohamad Jaafar Ali , Hassine Moungla , Mohamed Younis , Ahmed Mehaoua

Modern medical wireless systems, such as wireless body area networks (WBANs), are applications of wireless networks that can be used as a tool of data transmission between patients and doctors. Accuracy of data transmission is an important…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Eimear Byrne , Akiko Manada , Stevan Marinkovic , Emanuel Popovici

Efficient radio spectrum utilization and low energy consumption in mobile devices are essential in developing next generation wireless networks. This paper presents a new medium access control (MAC) mechanism to enhance spectrum efficiency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kamal Rahimi Malekshan , Weihua Zhuang , Yves Lostanlen

Efficient management of heterogeneous traffic with varying priorities is critical in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). The priority mechanisms embedded in Media Access Control (MAC) schemes largely govern the performance of WBAN in terms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Shama Sidiqui , Indrakshi Dey

Energy Efficiency in wireless sensor networks is an important topic in which the nodes rely on battery power, and efficient energy usage is a key issue for sensitive applications that require long working times. This stimulates many…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Ghassan Samara

Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs) are being successfully used for the monitoring of large-scale systems that are delay-tolerant and which have low-bandwidth requirements. The next step would be instrumenting these for the control of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Laksh Bhatia , Ivana Tomic , Julie A. McCann

Energy efficiency is an important performance measure of wireless network protocols, especially for battery-powered mobile devices such as smartphones. This paper presents a new energy-efficient medium access control (MAC) scheme for fully…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 K. Rahimi Malekshan , W. Zhuang , Y. Lostanlen