Human body communication (HBC), which uses the human body tissue as the transmission
medium to transmit health informatics, serves as a promising physical layer solution for the …

Network lifetime is a crucial performance metric to evaluate data-gathering wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) where battery-powered sensor nodes periodically sense the environment …

Activities of a clinical staff in healthcare environments must regularly be adapted to new
treatment methods, medications, and technologies. This constant evolution requires the …

Following a surgical procedure, patients are monitored in an ICU until physically stable, after
which are discharged to a ward for further evaluation and recovery. Usually, ward evaluation …

The protection of a patient's data is the prime concern in the healthcare sector. With the
escalation in the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology for the smart healthcare …

In this paper, an energy efficient IoT virtualization framework with peer-to-peer (P2P)
networking and edge processing is proposed. In this network, the IoT task processing …

Wireless sensor networks equipped with rechargeable batteries are useful for outdoor
environmental monitoring. However, the severe energy constraints of the sensor nodes …

A portable electronic nose with database connection for on-line classification of pollutants in
water is presented in this paper. It is a hand-held, lightweight and powered instrument with …

With the continuous development of information technology, people are gradually moving
from the digital age to the intelligent era. As one of the most representative emerging …

Designing of scalable routing protocol with prolonged network lifetime for a wireless sensor
network (WSN) is a challenging task. WSN consists of large number of power …