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Mobile Networks and Applications
Published in: Mobile Networks and Applications 2/2011

01-04-2011

Body Area Networks: A Survey

Authors: Min Chen, Sergio Gonzalez, Athanasios Vasilakos, Huasong Cao, Victor C. M. Leung

Published in: Mobile Networks and Applications | Issue 2/2011

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Abstract

Advances in wireless communication technologies, such as wearable and implantable biosensors, along with recent developments in the embedded computing area are enabling the design, development, and implementation of body area networks. This class of networks is paving the way for the deployment of innovative healthcare monitoring applications. In the past few years, much of the research in the area of body area networks has focused on issues related to wireless sensor designs, sensor miniaturization, low-power sensor circuitry, signal processing, and communications protocols. In this paper, we present an overview of body area networks, and a discussion of BAN communications types and their related issues. We provide a detailed investigation of sensor devices, physical layer, data link layer, and radio technology aspects of BAN research. We also present a taxonomy of BAN projects that have been introduced/proposed to date. Finally, we highlight some of the design challenges and open issues that still need to be addressed to make BANs truly ubiquitous for a wide range of applications.
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Footnotes
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There are some variations that include the word “Wireless” and/or the word “Sensor”. Therefore, WBAN and WBASN are widely accepted too.
 
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Metadata
Title
Body Area Networks: A Survey
Authors
Min Chen
Sergio Gonzalez
Athanasios Vasilakos
Huasong Cao
Victor C. M. Leung
Publication date
01-04-2011
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Mobile Networks and Applications / Issue 2/2011
Print ISSN: 1383-469X
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8153
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-010-0260-8

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