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A comprehensive review of wireless body area network
Hasan, Khalid Biswas, Kamanashis Ahmed, Khandakar Nafi, Nazmus S. Islam, Md Saiful
Hasan, Khalid
Biswas, Kamanashis
Ahmed, Khandakar
Nafi, Nazmus S.
Islam, Md Saiful
Abstract
Recent development and advancement of information and communication technologies facilitate people in different dimensions of life. Most importantly, in the healthcare industry, this has become more and more involved with the information and communication technology-based services. One of the most important services is monitoring of remote patients, that enables the healthcare providers to observe, diagnose and prescribe the patients without being physically present. The advantage of miniaturization of sensor technologies gives the flexibility of installing in, on or off the body of patients, which is capable of forwarding physiological data wirelessly to remote servers. Such technology is named as Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). In this paper, WBAN architecture, communication technologies for WBAN, challenges and different aspects of WBAN are illustrated. This paper also describes the architectural limitations of existing WBAN communication frameworks. blueFurthermore, implementation requirements are presented based on IEEE 802.15.6 standard. Finally, as a source of motivation towards future development of research incorporating Software Defined Networking (SDN), Energy Harvesting (EH) and Blockchain technology into WBAN are also provided.
Keywords
WBAN, IEEE 802.15.6, M2M, SDN, blockchain
Date
2019
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Journal article
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Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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Volume
143
Issue
Page Range
178-198
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ACU Department
Peter Faber Business School
Faculty of Law and Business
Faculty of Law and Business
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All rights reserved
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