Abstract
During the last few years, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have emerged into many application domains, such as medicine, sport, entertainments, military, and monitoring. This emerging networking technology can be used for e-health monitoring. In this paper, we review the literature and investigate the challenges in the development architecture of WBANs. Then, we classified the challenges of WBANs that need to be addressed for their development. Moreover, we investigate the various diseases and healthcare systems and current state-of-the-art of applications and mainly focus on the remote monitoring for elderly and chronically diseases patients. Finally, relevant research issues and future development are discussed.
Highlights
As time goes on, communication technologies have started the gap toward a pervasive world
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) were classified with intelligent nodes based on implementing within the body as follows: In the body or implantable sensors - these nodes implanted in the patient's body, inside the body tissue or underneath the skin
The accelerating health care cost and high demand for medical services call for innovative solutions to ensure fast and cost-effective medical monitoring cause for evolution in health care systems
Summary
Communication technologies have started the gap toward a pervasive world. In 1995, Zimmerman examined how these electronic devices operate near or inside the human body. He used the term PAN, personal wireless network as a communication channel for communication within the body. Around 2001, PAN term has been changed to encompass communications and implantable use of devices around or inside the body to the physical network BAN [1]. BAN devices may be embedded in the body or may be mounted on the body or in a fixed position on the wearable technology or may be placed in mobile devices that people can carry in different situations, in clothing, pocket, hand or different bags [2]. Conclusion and future direction are provided in the last section
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