Recent advances in microelectronics and integrated circuits, system-on-chip design,
wireless communication and intelligent low-power sensors have allowed the realization of a …

The human body is an extremely challenging environment for the operation of wireless
communications systems, not least because of the complex antenna-body electromagnetic …

The increasing use of wireless networks and the constant miniaturization of electrical
devices has empowered the development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). In …

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) offer many promising new applications in the area of
remote health monitoring. An important element in the development of a WBAN is the …

This article explores on-body energy management mechanisms in the context of emerging
wireless body area networks. In severely resource-constrained systems such as WBANs …

Wireless body area sensor networks will revolutionize health care services by remote,
continuous and non-invasive monitoring. Body area sensor networks (BASN) should monitor …

This paper focuses on the energy efficiency of communication in small-scale sensor
networks experiencing high path loss. In particular, a sensor network on the human body or …

While there exists a wide variety of radio frequency (RF) technologies amenable for usage in
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs), which have been studied separately before, it is …

In this paper we are concerned with the problem of data forwarding from a wireless body
area network (WBAN) to a gateway when body shadowing affects the ability of WBAN nodes …

This article proposes a multibody electromagnetic (EM) model for the quantitative evaluation
of the influence of multiple human bodies in the surroundings of a radio link. Modeling of …