A Review of Wireless Body Area Networks for Medical Applications

Details A Review of Wireless Body Area Networks for Medical Applications A Review of Wireless Body Area Networks for Medical Applications

2010-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/1001.0831v3

International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp 797-803, 2009

Computer Science

Networking and Internet Architecture

7 pages, 7 figures, and 3 tables. In V3, the manuscript is converted to LaTeX

Scientific paper

10.4236/ijcns.2009.28093

Recent advances in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology, integrated circuits, and wireless communication have allowed the realization of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). WBANs promise unobtrusive ambulatory health monitoring for a long period of time and provide real-time updates of the patient's status to the physician. They are widely used for ubiquitous healthcare, entertainment, and military applications. This paper reviews the key aspects of WBANs for numerous applications. We present a WBAN infrastructure that provides solutions to on-demand, emergency, and normal traffic. We further discuss in-body antenna design and low-power MAC protocol for WBAN. In addition, we briefly outline some of the WBAN applications with examples. Our discussion realizes a need for new power-efficient solutions towards in-body and on-body sensor networks.

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