A comprehensive survey of wireless body area networks: On PHY, MAC, and network layers solutions

S Ullah, H Higgins, B Braem, B Latre, C Blondia… - Journal of medical …, 2012 - Springer
Recent advances in microelectronics and integrated circuits, system-on-chip design,
wireless communication and intelligent low-power sensors have allowed the realization of a …

A survey on wireless body area networks

B Latré, B Braem, I Moerman, C Blondia, P Demeester - Wireless networks, 2011 - Springer
The increasing use of wireless networks and the constant miniaturization of electrical
devices has empowered the development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). In …

Pervasive healthcare and wireless health monitoring

U Varshney - Mobile Networks and Applications, 2007 - Springer
With an increasingly mobile society and the worldwide deployment of mobile and wireless
networks, the wireless infrastructure can support many current and emerging healthcare …

Mobile health: Four emerging themes of research

U Varshney - Decision Support Systems, 2014 - Elsevier
Mobile health has been receiving a lot of attention from patients, healthcare professionals,
application developers, network service providers and researchers. Mobile health is more …

Smart Vest: Wearable multi-parameter remote physiological monitoring system

PS Pandian, K Mohanavelu, KP Safeer… - Medical engineering & …, 2008 - Elsevier
The wearable physiological monitoring system is a washable shirt, which uses an array of
sensors connected to a central processing unit with firmware for continuously monitoring …

[LLIBRE][B] Pervasive healthcare computing: EMR/EHR, wireless and health monitoring

U Varshney - 2009 - books.google.com
Pervasive healthcare is the conceptual system of providing healthcare to anyone, at
anytime, and anywhere by removing restraints of time and location while increasing both the …

A reliable transmission protocol for zigbee-based wireless patient monitoring

SK Chen, T Kao, CT Chan, CN Huang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Patient monitoring systems are gaining their importance as the fast-growing global elderly
population increases demands for caretaking. These systems use wireless technologies to …

An experimental investigation into the influence of user state and environment on fading characteristics in wireless body area networks at 2.45 GHz

SL Cotton, WG Scanlon - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using seven strategically placed, time-synchronized body worn receivers covering the head,
upper front and back torso, and the limbs, we have investigated the effect of user state …

Secure and quality of service assurance scheduling scheme for wban with application to ehealth

M Barua, MS Alam, X Liang… - 2011 IEEE Wireless …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is gaining popularity due to its large scale of
applications in eHealth. Due to its critical and real-time nature, eHealth care system must …

Energy efficiency and reliability in wireless biomedical implant systems

J Abouei, JD Brown, KN Plataniotis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of wireless implant technology requires correct delivery of the vital physiological
signs of the patient along with the energy management in power-constrained devices …